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Martha Meir Allen. Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why
Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why
Table of Contents
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 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
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
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
THE LONDON TEMPERANCE HOSPITAL
THE FRANCES E. WILLARD NATIONAL TEMPERANCE HOSPITAL
THE RED CROSS HOSPITAL
ALCOHOL IN OTHER HOSPITALS
CHAPTER V
THE EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL UPON THE HUMAN BODY
ALCOHOL AND STOMACH DIGESTION
EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL UPON THE BLOOD
ALCOHOL AND THE HEART
EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL UPON THE LIVER
EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL UPON THE KIDNEYS
CHAPTER VI
ALCOHOL AS A MEDICINE
IS ALCOHOL FOOD?
IS ALCOHOL A STIMULANT?
ALCOHOL AS A TONIC
ALCOHOL AS A SEDATIVE
ALCOHOL AS AN ANTIPYRETIC
PROFESSOR ATWATER’S CONCLUSIONS UPON ALCOHOL AS A FUEL-FOOD
CHAPTER VII
ALCOHOL IN PHARMACY
CHAPTER VIII
DISEASES, AND THEIR TREATMENT WITHOUT ALCOHOL
CONSUMPTION
PNEUMONIA
POISON, ANIMAL
TYPHOID FEVER
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
Many Druggists Indignant. A PATENT-MEDICINE ADVERTISEMENT CONTAINS UNAUTHORIZED. ENDORSEMENTS
CHAPTER XIV
“DRUGGING.”
CHAPTER XV
TESTIMONIES OF PHYSICIANS AGAINST ALCOHOLIC MEDICATION
CHAPTER XVI
RECENT RESEARCHES UPON ALCOHOL
CHAPTER XVII
MISCELLANEOUS
ADVERTISED “CURES” FOR DRUNKENNESS
ALCOHOL TESTED
BEER-DRINKING INJURES HEALTH
DRUG DRINKS
SPECIAL MEDICAL DIRECTIONS FOR WOMEN
TOTAL ABSTINENCE AND LIFE INSURANCE
INDEX
ERRATA
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Martha Meir Allen
What Medical Writers Say
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It should be stated here that Dr. Richardson was not a total abstainer when he began his study of the effects of alcohol, but became an ardent and enthusiastic advocate of total abstinence, and later of non-alcoholic medication, because of what he learned by his experiments with this drug. He was the first to suggest that scientific temperance be taught in the public schools, and he prepared the first text-book ever published for this purpose. In 1874 he delivered his famous “Cantor Lectures on Alcohol,” by request of the Society of Arts. This series of lectures created a sensation, being attended by crowds of people, as it was the first time that any physician of eminence had spoken from experimental evidence in favor of total abstinence.
The agitation begotten in medical circles by the discussion of Dr. Richardson’s researches upon alcohol led to extensive experimenting upon the same line by scientists of England, Continental Europe and America. The efforts of the National Woman’s Christian Temperance Union of the United States, led by that intrepid woman, Mrs. Mary H. Hunt, to introduce scientific temperance instruction into public schools gave impetus to the study in this country. The call for text-books caused publishers to request professors in medical colleges to make minute research into the nature and effects of alcohol, that the demands of the new educational law might be met. The bitter opposition to these temperance education laws was a great stimulant to the scientific study of alcohol, for it was hoped by many that the teachings regarding the deleterious effects of alcohol might be proved incorrect. Unfortunately for the lovers of the bibulous, the proof was all the other way; great medical men could not be bought by distillers or brewers to tell anything but the truth, and the truth of experimental research was all against alcohol. The text-books endorsed by Mrs. Hunt and her advisory committee being assailed again and again as containing erroneous teaching, were finally, in 1897, submitted to an examining committee of medical experts, nearly all of whom were connected with medical colleges. This committee consisted of Dr. N. S. Davis, Sr., of Chicago, Ill.; Dr. Leartus Connor, of Detroit, Michigan; Dr. Henry Q. Marcy, of Boston, Mass.; Dr. E. E. Montgomery, of Philadelphia, Pa.; Dr. Henry D. Holton, of Brattleboro, Vt.; and Dr. George F. Shrady, of New York City. From their reports upon the books the following is culled:—
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