The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-07

ufacture of vinegar. Jellies are col
ored with dyes made from alcohol;
stick candy is lacquered with
harmless resin dissolved in alcohol.
Pectin, now almost universally used
in making jellies in the home, is
recovered from fruits by the use OF
alcohol.
Druggists use alcohol more uni
versally than any other chemical.
All perfumes contain alcohol. 1t is
used in every kind of lotion, cos
metic, liquid soap, shaving cream,
tooth paste, mouth wash, hair tonic,
germicide. insect killer, deodorant
and collodion solutions.
In medicine, it is essential. 1t is
used in the manufacture of more
than 1000 medicinal preparations,
including such indispensable drugs
as antipyrin, salvarsan, and insulin.
You remember in this connection
now Louis Pasteur came to make his
monumental scientific discovery
concerning the bacterial origin of
disease, discovery that has saved
more human lives and prevented
more human suffering than all
other agencies of healing and mercy
since the dawn of the Christian era.
He made those discoveries in a
brewery in France, experimenting
upon beer and wine, to determine
the cause of secondary fermenta-
tons.
He discovered the germ theory of
disease in a glass of beer. From
that discovery, to quote the Ian
guage of Sir James Crichton
Browne, an eminent member of the
English College Of Royal Surgeons:
Must be aScribed the abolition
of that dread scourge puerperal
fever (Which was killing an enor-
nous percentage of the mothers
of the world the detection of the
germs of tubercle, cholera, lock
Jaw, Malta fever, the discovery of
diphtheria, antitoxin and Of the
protective treatment against chol-
era, typhoid fever and the plague,
the eIucidation of the true nature
and mosquito origin of yellow
fever, and finally production of
a remedy for the hidden plague"
CERTAINLY, the needs of ailing
~ and suffering humanity are
nothing to the Anti-Saloon League
reformers. They have asserted that
they and the federal government,
and not the doctors, have the right
to prescribe what sick and dying
man requires for his restoration to
health.
Did not the late Wayne B. Wheel
ed doctor of divinity, not medicine),
declare before the judicial commit
tee of the house of representatives
on May 20, 1921, this new principle
of therapeutics? Hear him:
IF it comes to the point where
it must be a choice between me-
dicaments for medical prepare
ton and the enforcement Of law,
I think we must choose law en-
forcement."
Yet, you will read the eighteenth
amendment in vain for any prohi-
bition against the medical use OF
alcohol.
There could have been no devel-
opment of modern surgery without
the anesthetic others and the an
tiseptic compounds used for put
ting the patient 10 sleep" and the
prevention of suppuration OF
wounds.
The recent introduction OF ethy-
lene, a new antiseptic, with less
after-effects than any other. has
attracted worldwide attention. Ex-
periments have been made with this
product to eliminate pain in child
birth. Choral, chloroform, ioc.o-
form and ethyl chi bride extensively
used in hospitals are all made from
alcohol.
Chemists tell US that it is abso-
IuteIy impossible for the human
race to do without alcohol. We are
washed with it al birth and en-
balmed with it after death