Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-02-09

Pharmacopcial Convention and formsrl,
chief of the Bureau Of Chemistry, De
partment Of Agriculture, who 10 in st
Louis to attend meeting Of tho board o
trustees of the Pharmacopoeial Associa
ton, said yesterday that whisky and
brandy have been eliminated as medicine
DIR. Wiley asserted that whisky, instead
of being AN effective remedy or preventa-
tive Tor influenza, was positive poison
iii such cases. In only one instance
would | Use whisky for an influenza case,
said he; that would be case where wish
ed to hasten the departure To heaven OF
patient
"A Baltimore woman made large
donation Of whisky Ia the Marine Hospital
in Baltimore for use in medical treatment
of patients. Major Vogel in charge of
the Marine Hospital, promptly refused
the donation, rs no whisky is used in the
hospital IN the treatment of patients. The
Marine Hospital is controlled by the
Treasury Department.
Congressman SABBATH recently intro
duced IN Congress n resolu ion advising
the lifting of the National Prohibition
Enforcement Law IN order that physicians
may be able to have the necessary whisky
to combat the ilu.' Health Commits
sloner Robertson of Chicago has launched
vigorous protest against SABBATH efforts
iii this behalf, declaring that alcohol is
one of the greatest predisposing factors
VIC ever had for the pneumonia. Whisky
is not fire for the Flu nor remedy
IL does not assist IN any manner in fighting
either one of the Diseases
"Dr. Howard A. Kelly, the famous
physician and surgeon. says: General
j. NJ. I. Finnoy, NJ. D., was telling me
about hls early experience as patient in
Boston. Alcohol WAS prescribed rs
was then the custom. He said, You
know | got TO watching the time when
that alcohol would come back TO me,
and IN my convalesoencc | realized there
was n big danger ahead and | called on
my physician and asked if it could not be
stopped. He stopped it then and there,
and DIR. Finney said, never since that
time in my life have / ever prescribed
alcohol in any case. DIR. Finney is per-
haps the most prominent surgeon in
Maryland. DIR. Kelly goes ON to say
j myself agree with General Finney that
alcohol Is worse than useless.
The House of Delegates, which is the
authoritative body of American Medical
Association, composed Cf 81 600 members.
on June q, 1918, adopted the following
resolution: We believe that the use of
alcohol as n beverage is detrimental to
the human economy and its use in thera-
peutlCs, as tonic or a stimulant or as n
food has no scientific basis Therefore.
he II resolved that the American Medical
Association opposes the use of alcohol as a
beverage, and be it further resolved, that
the use of alcohol as a therapeutic agent
should be discouraged
Or Charles H. Mayo. the noted
surgeon of Rochester. Minnesota, when
he was installed as president of the Ameri-
can Medical Association, June, 1918.
said Medicine has reached a period when
alcohol is rarely employed as drug. but
Is displaced by better remedies. Alcohols
only place now is in the arts and sciences.
National Prohibition would bc welcomed
by the medical profession.
''It Is time alcohol was banished from
the medical armamentarilm Whisky
has killed thousands where IL has cured
0ne'-J. n. Mccormick, NJ. ID, Secre-
tary, Kentucky Board of Health and
for American Medical Asso-
ciatiOn.
'"In the thirteen years | have taught
IN Michigan, | have not used alcohol in
the treatment of disease in a routine wav'
DR.. George Dock, formerly Prof of
Medicine, University of Michigan Medical
College.
''1 never order alcohol because be- |
i've patients recover better without it -