Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why - Martha Meir Allen (readict books txt) 📗

400
anti-spasmodic, 124
apparent benefits; deceptive warmth from evanescent, 108
anæsthetic and paralyzant, 120, 181
anæsthetic effect deceptive, 222, 262, 266
antipyretic, 127
as medicine, 96-130
as medicine, causes waste of force, 83
as medicine, diminished use, 20, 53-57
as medicine, need of popular education regarding, 297
as medicine, opposition to by W. C. T. U., 21-27
causes disease, 28-36
as sedative, 127
as tonic, 124, 126
beginning of scientific study, 11
a cause of Bright’s disease, 34, 91
causes malnutrition, 284
craving, 140
delusion that it “supports”, 294
depressant, 150, 178
dangerous in pneumonia, 201
difference in action from carbohydrates and fats, 403
diminishes arterial pressure, 119, 120
effect on respiration, 263, 266
experiments, 11, 15, 62, 65, 80, 93, 101, 119, 120, 149, 200, 266, 267, 268, 275, 279, 288, 392-405, 421

Alcoholic diseases ascribed to other causes, 33
drink, no danger in sudden stopping, 293
drinks, stories of life sustained on, 112
dyspepsia, 63
proprietary medicines, 299-334

Alcohol, medical use bulwark of liquor-traffic, 96, 97, 360, 361
medical use causes death, 260
medical use delays recovery, 115
medical use evidence against, 336-391
medical use result of habit and tradition, 292, 294, 295, 298, 378
medical use, Toledo Blade on, 358
medical use, mortality increased by, 247-261, 267

Ammonia, 40, 188

Anæsthesia, 119, 120

Anæmia, 141

Anders, Dr. Howard S., 370

Angina pectoris, 181, 182

Animal poison, 206-211

Anthrax, 281, 282

Alcoholism, 36, 111

Ale, 120, 142, 236

Alkalies for stomach, 174

Alum, 143, 164, 171, 215

American Association for Study of Inebriety, 329

American Druggist and Patent Medicine Agitation, 26

American Medical Association, declaration on alcohol, 14

Antikamnia, 192, 346

Anti-Tuberculosis Congress resolution, 154

Apoplexy, 31, 32, 111, 142

Appetite, loss of, 142

Aschaffenberg, Prof., 400

Association of Abstaining Physicians, Germany, 387

Asthma, 179, 345

Athletes and alcohol, 103

Atwater, Prof., 128-130

Australian Government Commission on Patent Medicines, 314


Baldwin, Dr. Edward R., 370

Barton, Miss Clara, 48

Baths, 57, 145, 146, 147, 152, 164, 193, 197, 199, 410, 431, 432

Battle Creek Sanitarium, 223-227, 255, 256

Bavaria, beer-drinking effects, 425

Beale, Dr. Lionel, 99, 286

Beaumont, Dr., 61, 293

Beddoes, Dr., 13, 421

Beebe, Dr. S. P., 404, 405

Beef-tea, 194, 197, 325

Bacteria, 150

Badger, Dr. Richard, 365

Baer, Dr., 19

Barker, Prof., 337

Barr, Sir James, 372

Beer, 31, 66, 116, 117, 124, 126, 142, 179, 239, 244-246, 247, 423-426

Bellevue Hospital, 36, 54, 309

Berkley and Friedenwald, 279

Beverages for the sick, 411

Bigelow, Dr. Jacob, 335

Billings, Dr. Frank, 155

Bitters, 176, 329

Blankmeyer, Dr. H. J., 159

Bleuler, Dr., 388

Blood, 66-75, 76, 86,106, 113, 114, 119, 393

Blood purifiers, 75

Blood vessels, 63, 75, 76, 108, 109, 120, 124, 143

Blumenau, alcohol and digestion, 173

Boils and carbuncles, 144

Bond, Dr. Knox, on fevers, 252, 373

Bostwick, Dr., 336

Bowditch, Prof. Vincent Y., 157

Boynton, Dr., 377

Bradner, Dr. Roe, 329, 332

Brain, 32, 36

Brandy, 35, 120, 143, 151, 173, 177, 183, 196, 215, 356

Brewers, 38, 425

Bright’s disease, 34, 91, 94

British army, experiences with alcohol, 101, 102

British Medical Journal, 180, 247, 269, 270, 319, 324

British Medical Temperance Association, 148-151, 250

Broadbent, Dr., 274

Brodie, Dr. Benj., 105

Bromidia, 353

Bromo Seltzer, 346

Brown, Dr. Alonzo, 271-273

Brunton, Dr. Lauder, 269, 270

Bucke, Dr. R. M., alcohol and the insane, 412

Buckley, Rev. J. M., D.D., cured of consumption, 159

Bunge, Prof. G. Von, 207, 424

Bureau of Chemistry, 426, 427

Burnett, Dr. Mary Weeks, 41-44

Burt, Mrs. Mary T., 24

Bussey, Dr., 237

Butter, substitute for cod-liver oil, 314


Cabot, Dr. Richard C., 57, 370

Caffeine, 49, 135, 300, 428-430

Cain, Dr. J. S., 229, 377

Calmette, Dr., snake-bite 206-209

Camphor, 217, 374

Cancer and alcohol, 288

Carbolic acid, 138, 145

Carbon dioxide, 71-73

Carbonic acid in wine, 117

Cardiac paralysis in diphtheria, 272, 273

Carpanutrine, 313

Carpenter, Dr. Alfred, 86

Carson, Prof. J. W., 336

Casgrau, Dr., doctors who personally use alcohol less observant of its effects, 294

Catarrh, 144, 145, 345

Cells, 58-60, 68, 130, 271, 272

Chapman, Dr. C. W., 184

Charcoal, 179

Charrin, Dr., 287

Cheese, cannot be made from milk of cows fed on distillery slops, 236

Cheyne, Prof. W. W., snake-poison, 209, 210

Children, danger of alcohol for, 416

Children of beer-drinking mothers, 236, 237

Children, per cent. of deaths of those of abstaining and drinking parents, 397, 398

Chills, 146

Chittenden, Prof., 93, 403

Chloral, 127, 138, 190, 275, 332, 353

Chlorodyne, 127

Chloroform, 119, 120, 121, 270, 353

Cholera, 35, 147-152, 257, 258
infantum, 152, 153
morbus, 152

Christian Advocates, The, and patent medicines, 26

Christison, Prof., 34

Cincinnati Hospital, 254

Circulation, 76, 77, 184-186

Claret, 120, 177, 419

Clark, Dr. Alonzo, 336
Sir Andrew, 35, 101

Clinique, The, 180

Coal-tar drugs, 75, 180, 192, 339, 340

Coca wines, 319-324

Coca Cola, 427

Cocaine, 300, 319-325, 345-351, 427

Cod-liver oil, fraudulent preparations, 314

Coffee, 40, 141, 194, 236

Cohen, Dr. S. S., 365

Cold, as a heart stimulant, 184-186
as tonic, 125
pack, 186
treatment for pneumonia, 202

Colds, cause and treatment, 146

Colic, 147

Collier, Dr. Wm., 372

Collier’s Weekly and nostrums, 26

Collins, Dr., 157

Coloring matter in wines arrests digestion, 176

Coma from waste retention, 115

Committee of Fifty, 19, 128, 279
on Pharmacy, 314, 315, 316

Condi, Dr., nursing mothers, 236

Constipation, 146

Consumption, 153-162, 326

Convalescence and alcohol, 292, 294

Convulsions, 147, 179

Cook County Hospital, 54, 159, 253

Cordials in dyspepsia, 176

Cough medicines, 310-312
simple remedies, 146, 147, 162

Cramps, 179

Cream, substitute for cod-liver oil, 160, 314

Crothers, Dr. T. D., 120, 131, 183, 218, 345, 390

Cures for inebriety, 329, 414


Deaths from alcohol, 28, 83, 87
from alcoholic diseases ascribed to other causes, 31-34

Death-rates, comparative, 75,

85, 247-261, 267
lowered by non-alcoholic treatment, 37, 46, 219

Debility, 171, 172

Davis, Dr.