tion>Martha Meir Allen
Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why
What Medical Writers Say
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664597557
Table of Contents
HISTORY OF THE STUDY OF ALCOHOL.
THE WOMAN’S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION IN OPPOSITION TO ALCOHOL AS MEDICINE.
ALCOHOL AS A PRODUCER OF DISEASE.
THE EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL UPON THE HUMAN BODY.
DISEASES, AND THEIR TREATMENT WITHOUT ALCOHOL.
COMPARATIVE DEATH-RATES WITH AND WITHOUT THE USE OF ALCOHOL AS A REMEDY.
REASONS WHY ALCOHOL IS DANGEROUS AS MEDICINE.
WHY DOCTORS STILL PRESCRIBE ALCOHOLICS.
ALCOHOLIC PROPRIETARY OR ‘PATENT’ MEDICINES.
TESTIMONIES OF PHYSICIANS AGAINST ALCOHOLIC MEDICATION.
RECENT RESEARCHES UPON ALCOHOL .
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
