LITMIR.BIZ

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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Table of Contents

       INTRODUCTION.

       PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION.

       ALCOHOL.

       CHAPTER I.

       HISTORY OF THE STUDY OF ALCOHOL.

       CHAPTER II.

       THE WOMAN’S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION IN OPPOSITION TO ALCOHOL AS MEDICINE.

       CHAPTER III.

       ALCOHOL AS A PRODUCER OF DISEASE.

       CHAPTER IV.

       TEMPERANCE HOSPITALS.

       CHAPTER V.

       THE EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL UPON THE HUMAN BODY.

       CHAPTER VI.

       ALCOHOL AS A MEDICINE.

       CHAPTER VII.

       ALCOHOL IN PHARMACY.

       CHAPTER VIII.

       DISEASES, AND THEIR TREATMENT WITHOUT ALCOHOL.

       CHAPTER IX.

       ALCOHOL AND NURSING MOTHERS.

       CHAPTER X.

       COMPARATIVE DEATH-RATES WITH AND WITHOUT THE USE OF ALCOHOL AS A REMEDY.

       CHAPTER XI.

       REASONS WHY ALCOHOL IS DANGEROUS AS MEDICINE.

       CHAPTER XII.

       WHY DOCTORS STILL PRESCRIBE ALCOHOLICS.

       CHAPTER XIII.

       ALCOHOLIC PROPRIETARY OR ‘PATENT’ MEDICINES.

       CHAPTER XIV.

       “DRUGGING.”

       CHAPTER XV.

       TESTIMONIES OF PHYSICIANS AGAINST ALCOHOLIC MEDICATION.

       CHAPTER XVI.

       RECENT RESEARCHES UPON ALCOHOL .

       CHAPTER XVII.

       MISCELLANEOUS.

       INDEX

      CHAPTER I.

       History of the Study of Alcohol.

      Discovery of distillation--First American investigator of effects of alcohol--Medical Declarations--Sir B. W. Richardson's researches--Scientific Temperance Instruction in American Schools--Committee of Fifty9

      CHAPTER II.

       The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

       in Opposition to Alcohol as Medicine.

      How the Opposition began—Memorial to International Medical Congress—Origin of Medical Temperance Department—Objects of the department—Public agitation against patent medicines originated by the department—Laws of Georgia, Alabama and Kansas on Medical prescription of alcohol21

      CHAPTER III.

       Alcohol as a Producer of Disease.

      Alcohol a poison—Sudden deaths from brandy—Changes in liver, kidneys, heart, blood-vessels and nerves caused by alcohol—Beer and wine as harmful as the stronger drinks—Alcohol causes indigestion—Other diseases caused by alcohol—Deaths from alcoholism in Switzerland28

      CHAPTER IV.

       Temperance Hospitals.

      The London Temperance Hospital—Methods of treatment—The Frances E. Willard Temperance Hospital, Chicago—“As a beverage" in the pledge—Address by Miss Frances E. Willard at opening of hospital—The Red Cross Hospital—Clara Barton and non-alcoholic medication—Reports of treatment in Red Cross Hospital—Use of Alcohol declining in other hospitals37

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