The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1922-11-30
DOCTORS AND
WHISKEY
Wine and Beer-By Martha M.
Allen, Worlds Superinten-
dent of Medical
Temperance.

that alcohol is not stimulant, but a
heart depressant up-to-date practitioners
do not administer it in heart failure
or shock as it may cause death. Some
physicians in large cities where snakes
are unknown declared that whiskey is
needed for snakebite, 1T seemed evil
dent that many of the answers were
due to the study of old textbooks rec
Ommending alcoholic liquors rather
than to experience for in states where
for some years whiskey has not been
sold even for medicine a good many
doctors declared it to be necessary in
sickness.
favor whiskey than in other places.
This is probably due to the number of
foreign doctors in cities. The majority
express desire TO have the profession
relieved from the burden of the distri-
button of liquors.
From the comments published with
out names in the Journal of the Ameri
can Medical Association, the following
are quoted:
Sine Arizona has gone dry, the
working mans family is much better
off and the doctors bills more promptly
PUBLICATIONS..
/ am convinced that prohibition is
the greatest step forward that the
Tn ted States has made since the
Declaration of Independence was sign
ed.-Arizona.
/ have practiced medicine over forty
years. In all that time / have not
prescribed half gallon of liquor
Denver.
Alcoholic liquids are bad enough to
drink worse for medicinal purposes
Delmar.
In my opinion, physicians have at
command medicinal substances super
ior for medical purposes to whiskey,
wine and dbeer.-Washington ID. c.
have a very decided conviction that
the prescribing of beer, wines and
| whiskey leads to such inevitable abuses
as to be wholly Notwithstanding
| ton, d. c.
don't think ii is for the best inter-
ests of the medical profession for us
| to be allowed to prescribe-the Oppor-
tunity for evil is greater than for good.
Rome, Ga.
/ am opposed to the internal use
Of alcohol in any and all diseases, and
never advise its use.-Clay County, Ill.
As young physician l imagined
that | could not treat certain diseases
without the use of whiskey or brandy,
but after years of experience l find
that my patients do as well if not
better without them.-Chicago
l would wipe alcohol off the menu
of the rapeutc agents. If this were
done am certain that the new genera
tion of physicians accustomed TO the
use of better agents than alcohol would
have as good results or better
Chicago.
We need higher standards for the
practice of Chicago.
For two years the indianapolis City
Hospital has not had or used any whis-
key, beer or wine in the trea tment of
it's cases, and no fatalities or unneces-
sary suffering has occurred as result
of this tion.-IndianapOlis
Have used no alcoholic liquors in
my practice during the last twenty
five years, and am feeling proud of my
results-Corydon, Ind.
l have practiced medicine nearly 42
years and have never found spirits,
vinous or malt liquors of any benefit
whatever as either food or fuel, but
have found them very harmful.-Clay
County, Ind
The medical profession, as now con-
stituted, must be regulated and re-
stricted i'm prescribing liquors, wines
and beer for the same reason that
abOrtiOnists and drug prescribers are
regulated. l was originally opposed to
prohibition, but since j have seen its
wonderfully good effects j believe that
it should be made effective.-FOrt
Leavenworth. Kansas.
/ know few physicians who hold