The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1916-01-06
NO ALCOHOL IN THE SICK ROOM
May, 1916

NO ALCOHOL IN THE SICK ROOM
The Editor of the Rutland Herald
takes issue with the writer's statement
that "Alcohol is worthless in the sick.
room as a food or stimulant."
The gentleman in question asserts
that medical authority will not sup
port such assertion, on the contrary
alcohol is used as stimulan. and ac-
CELEBRATES the action Of the heart" He
also suggests that Mrs. Parmelee
should be more sure of her facts, OF
Perryism will decline in favor mora
rapidly by virtue Of just such asser-
TONS 1t is plainly evident tina. Edi-
tor Hindley's line of study and re-
search has not been extended to med
zeal temperance else he would not have
made some of the statements contain
ed in his editorial.
The writer is most happy to submit
reasonable amount Of proof at this
time, for her seeming strong "asser-
tions," and as much more as the Her
aid may wish to publish. As gradu-
ate nurse, and therefore associated
more or less for several years with
eminent physicians and surgeons in
hospital and private nursing, the writ
er feels justified in her radical opin-
ions and statements upon this subject.
The Bible was the first book to de-
clare alcoholic liquors poison and
modern medical research has now
come to the same conclusion.
Prof. Won Bunge, the greatest phys
biological chemist of Europe, says "My
studies in the workings of alcohol have
made me thorough going prohibi-
ZIONIST"
Forty-fve years ago the American
Society for the Study of Alcohol and
Other Narcotics was formed for the
purpose of determining whether alco-
| nUl was an dSiudI HtNcSsiy III tHt
treatment of disease. This was the
frs. society in the world to take up
such scientific study and tabulate its
results. AT their 43rd convention DR..
Lewis d. Mason Of Brooklyn, N. Y,
said: "Alcohol no longer has any place
in Materia Medica and the popular
fallacy of the use Of wine, beer, and
alcohol, in any form should be de
nounced. 1t is very noticeable that the
physician of to-day who does not pre-
scribe alcohol, has a marked advan-
tage over one who does"
The late Dr. S. N. Davis, a world
recognized authority, and ex-president
of the American Medical Association,
man who had very large clinical
and private practice said: For over
80 years have tested the medical use
of alcoholics, and have never found
case of disease or an emergency arts
ing from accident, tina. | could not
treat more successfully without any
form of fermented or distilled liquor,
than with"
DR.. F. d. Crothers of Hartford, |
Conn, recognized authority upon
alcohol and its effect upon the human
body says: Break up he great delu-
sion Of to-day, that alcohol is a slim
ulant and tonic, and new age will /
come in" Dr. Crothers has written
mary articles for papers and maya
zines giving his experiences with non
alcoholic experiments and treatment.
DR.. Lee w. Thomas, formerly
Swanton boy, but now physician in
New York City, says: alcohol is a
useless luxury which brings disease,
and death to the user, and
poverty, grief, and misery to the com
nunity. This believe is the true
economic and social definition Of
llcohol."
Ailbch A9tdt'H s9NHdboi DNtH VI IN
ahoma, physician of over 40 years
experience said at the las. session of
Congress: There is no good in the {
Use Of alcohol and there is no argu {
nent which can be made in its behalf
o far as any benefit TO be derived q
rom il by human kind. 1t is an out !
aw, il is a curse, and there is no good )
gord which can truthfulIy be said in u
,ehalf Of the use Of alcohol" ]
The Boston Journal Of Chemistry !
aid: IF all the alcohol in the world
we're annihilated, and the art Of max c
NJ it were forever lost, it would be a t
ecided gain to the medical profes-
ion"
Dr. Wiley took practically the same
round. He was offered five thousand
we hundred dollars By the liquor in
eres.s 10 retraet similar statements. S