Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-01-15
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bers General William c. Gorgas. the
worldfamed sanitarian, DR.. Alexander
Graham Bell, distinguished inventor
and student of eugenics; David Starr
Jordan, president emeritus Leland
Stanford University. and DR.. G. HI.
Simmons, secretary of the American
Medical Association
Scientists Denounce Alcohol.
1t also includes such psychologists
as Professor Walter B. Cannon of
Harvard, Professors Richard M. Pearce
and A. Z. Taylor Of the University
Of Pennsylvania, Russell H. Chitten-
den and Lafayette B. Mendel of Yale
Lewellys f. Barker of Johns Hopkins,
Mazyck +. Ravenel of Wisconsin. DR..
Theobald Smith of the Rockefeller
Institute, as we'll as DR.. William J.
Mayo, the distinguished surgeon; DR..
]. n. Hurry, eX-president of American
Public Health Association; DR.. Henry
Smith Williams, DR.. Harvey w. Wiley
Of pure food fame DR.. George Blumer,
dean of the Yale Medical School:
such physical trainers as DR.. Dudley
A. Sargent Of Harvard gymnasium,
DR.. William G. Anderson of Yale
gymnasium, Professor AlOnZo A. Stage
of University of Chicago gymnasium.
DR.. r. TAFT Mckenzie of University
of Pennsylvania, and such students
of the economic effects Of alcohol as
Professor Henry w. Farnam of Yale,
former member of the famous commit
tee of so on alcohol, and Professor
Irving Fisher.
The following opinions Of eminent
medical men are fairly representative
Of practically the whole profession
at is only in quite recent years that
the fact is being forced upon the scientific
mind that even small quantities of alco-
hol habftuallv taken NAV do serious
harm."-Dr W. McAdam Eccles of Eng
land.
"Alcohol may itself exert an inuence on
the offsnring, but the poverty it entails,
and, more important still. the NEGLECT OF
the child. are very potent factors in the
DEVELOPMENT OF consumntion."-Dr Har-
old yallow. Chief tuberculosis Officer.
Bradford, England
very large proportion of some Of the most
painful ard dangerous maladies which
have come under my notice during more
than % years of professional lifel as weN,
as those Nhlcn every HerlTal man has II
treat. to the ordinary and daily use of
fermentfd drinks taken in the quantity
which IS conventionally deemed mod
crate Sir Henry Thomson.
1.-THE only nroner use of alcohol 70 an
ordinary ealthv person Is its disuse
Either as food or as drug we recognize
that alcohol is nf no servine-or OF very
litt1e--to the community No service as q
food. and very doubtful service as q drug.
A system of le"iSlation shoNld be enc cted
whereby the sale and use Of alcohol shat,
he very largely prohibited and prevented
TIL medical profession knows we'll that
alcohol is q potent cause Of disease
poverty and death. Sir Victor Horslev.
"There is no scientific justification for
the employment of alcohol in medicine
Alcohol IS virulent poison and. as such
should he placed in the list with arsenic.
mercury and other DANGEROUS drugs
DR.. r. w Carpenter the eminent ply
siolorist
alcohol is noison. In chemistry and
nhysioloev this is IFS proner place.
MANY readers may receive this doon1as-
tic assertion with q pooh, pooh" fanati-
cisIn and fn'l",' we know hattrr" Tot
me support the assertion, therefore With
authority. The sedative action Of alno-
hol on the BRAIN saws Christianeon-and
we know no higher authority either as
regards noieors or the article Of the
materia NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. It a nnwer-
fUl narcotic noison' The late Profess
scr Miller Edinbrrgh University
alcohol is one of the chief crrtailers ~
human life. The man of % who drinks
has a prohale life of Is years before him
the ahstafner one of A ears"-Professor
Lombroso, italy.