This page has been validated.
CONTENTS
v
| temperate woman—Of a drinking woman—Advice of Dr. James Edmunds, of the Lying-in Hospital, London—How to feed the baby—Case of a young mother who used beer—Nathan S.Davis on beer and gin | 234 |
| CHAPTER X. Comparative Death-Rates With and Without the Use of Alcohol. | |
| Fewer deaths in smallpox hospitals without alcohol—200 cases of scarlet fever without alcohol—Non-alcoholic treatment of fevers with less than 5 per cent, death-rate—Report of cases in English and Scotch hospitals—340 cases of typhus—London Lancet articles on typhoid—Mercy Hospital, Chicago—Death-rates in pneumonia and typhoid in large hospitals—Sir B. W. Richardson’s report of practice | 247 |
| CHAPTER XI. Reasons Why Alcohol Is Dangerous as Medicine. | |
| Researches of Abbott—Vital Resistance lowered by alcohol—Experiments upon Urinary Toxicity—Effect of alcohol upon the guardian-cells of the body—Dr. Sims Woodhead on immunity—Delearde’s experiments at the Pasteur Institute—Dr. A. Pearce Gould on alcohol and cancer—Delirium in illness caused by alcohol | 262 |
| CHAPTER XII. Why Doctors Still Prescribe Alcoholics. | |
| Public often demand it—Lack of knowledge of true nature of alcohol—Alcohol given undeserved credit for recoveries—Use of alcohol results from custom—Education of the people in teachings of non-alcoholic physicians necessary—Prescription of alcohol a matter of routine—Two examples | 291 |
| CHAPTER XIII. Alcoholic Proprietary or “Patent” Medicines. | |
| The Pure Food Law—The guarantee—Newspaper opposition to the law—Headache remedies—Fake testimonials—Dangers of soothing syrups and morphine cough syrups—Fraud orders issued by Post-Office Department—Internal Revenue Department and Patent | |
