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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10493, 2 December 1911, Page 4

(ADVERTISEMENT.) THE LIQUOR TRADE MRS Hcll-EIN BARTON AN J REJbCiiUNOF DOCTOR'o ADVICb. MRS BARTON HONESTLY AND SCIENTIFICALLY CORRECT. THE ONLY "DEGRADATION" IN OONINiEIOTION ' WITH THE TRADE'S PUBLICATION K THEIR OWN WORK EVERY-, WHERE, 'THE VALUE OF ALCOHOL AS A DRUG IS NIL."—SIR VICTOR HORSLEY, SURGEON UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL, LONDON, SURGEON TO NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR PARALYZED AND EPILEPTICS, AND AUTHOR OF ALCOHOL AND THE HUMAN BODY, ETC. HUNDREDS OF OTJSt BEST MEDICAL AUTHORITIES NOW ATTEST THAT ALCOHOL IS A POISONOUS DRUG AND ALWAYS DOES HARM WHEN ADMINISTERED AS A MEDICINE. Capital is attempted to be m : ade by the degraded and degrading Liquor Party out of a ca.se> (before the courts An Sydney, in. which Mm Helen Barton/, the worthy Temperance lecturer, i appeared as witness some months I ago. Of course, we are presented! with only a (brief extract of the case, and doubtless that portion/ only which' the Liquor Ring imagine wii3 stuib their own fell purpose. Readers should not be misled, in truth judicious readerisi never wall be mdsilfed (by .statements that do not appear in their fuJll context. Ware I writing as* a l'awver, it would be ea,sy to point out now the opposing ••couin.sel resorts' to a wellknown trap or ruse frequently employed Iby skilful 1 crogsnexamdaiers. i (1) A CASE IS ASSUMED WHICH, t FOR THE PERSON IN QUES- ' TION MAY NEVER OCCUR. (2) A QUESTION IS ASKED (>N| AN ASSUMED CASE; TO WHICH A CATEGORIC YES OR NO IS DEMANDED. (3) THE COUNSEL WELL KNOWING THAT WHATEVER THE ANSWER YES OR NO, IT MUST TELL PREJUDICIALLY, AGAINST"THE DEFENDANT. Now,'that is exactly' the" position Mrsi Barton' was •'cornered' and forced into,' and is> on 1 a par'witli tflu© question, "Have- you foft off' heating yoar mother ? Yes or "rib!'' Whichever ,way you. (answer, the • question is meant to tell against you. Now Mrs Barton, as a strong' advocate of temperance and a HQiorough student of the power of alcohol as. a poisonI on® drug_ according .to our best modern, imedical authorities-, was. forced into an entirely imaginary and assumed position,' am/d co>mpeled to (dire a. categoric amis wen*—ye®, or no. She accepted the posdtion and said no, and dm saying so was well within her light scilenStafica3ily and! hunnaneShe would not gxve .brandy; to her cMdren 'on. a, ifwrtor's. advice, even mg, as she had & right to believe in spite of the ignorant advice of the doctor, that the alcohol! advisied was a protopllaineio poison, and iwouffldf do liarm instead o| good, when other and things might have been 'used' to Ibetter purpose. ,J Her opinion wasi further Jmpregna.'My supported hy ifcflie (famous, tio.n in 1904 of fifteen/ thouisand British doctors against the use of alsohol a® a drug or as. a dietetic. The doctors of the Great Temperance Hospital, London, have for many years declared l solidly against the aise of alcohol a.s> a drug, and claim with full justice- better ..results in treatment of the sick. M.r Jintice Pn'ng lis. .stated to have remarked that if Mrs."Barton refused to give, alcohol to « sick child contrary to advice, of her doctor, and the chiJd died, she wonilld; have been, guilty of mans.Lnurii.ter.. He had no 'right to prejudge the case, for.l venture to p redact" that if tried before a .jury of intelligent doctors,- she would to-day be applauded, for hsr Ficieintinc "i.'vl ni.-)t orm vic+p-d.' Mrs. Bartoil' in Sydney was only slightly before, her time, 'and would appear to liavA been badly defended. , Now all this. is. Mr sßarton,'s own, personal! view, and; has. no connection, whatever with the question before the New Zealand elleotors.; and agaira in. taking the, view and attitude she does., she- has* the 'authority and support of the best scientific medical authority in the world, now rapidly en*Barging:— 1. "Brandy com tains 45 to 56 per •cent, alcohol" (ordinary analysis). .2. "Alcohol is a poison; so is strychnine, so is. arisen ic, so is. opium ; at. (raivks with ■ these agents. Health is aDwaysi in some way injured bv it. ' —Sir Andrew 'dark, M.D., Pfojjsiqiia.ii. Royall. 3. "Ini the' pliaa'imacologica'l classification of .porsonsi, it is invariv ably placed iside by side, with chloroform, ether, etc., and is Ascribed au a narcotic poison.. •Ihisi is the pesitioni assigned Yy piharmacologiistsi of all counu cries.."—Sir Victor Horsiey. ."•. "It is needless to point out at length hiow .st>eciia% n'mjuriouis alcohol) is to Ithe gi-owing structure of young diildren." —Sit Victor Horsiey. 5. "The value of alcohol as a drug ' is nn.T."—Sir Victor Horsliey and' Dir Mary Sturge. . She would refuse to. adniiniater a narcotic poison, to a sick chill'd, whose, "iliealith" was bound to be injured in some way by it, as well 1 ais its iboddly 'structure. '" Mirs Barton xefused' to be browheaten by a. frowning judge, who did not give any evidence ini his remarks' of acquaintance with the modern, scientific and medicali aspect of the aillcohoi! problem, or •driven, from' her scientificailily defensive position by the skalifuT and wily croas-questionl of a lawyer. But the Liquor Rimp: prefer _ ignorance, and to trade om it, to sicdeintific ' fact; and prof ess to show a regard ! for the isaving of life by brandy, when it was well known that over, sixty thousand (60,000) children are Rilaini in. the Umiited ' Kingdom by alcoholic drink. Over 60,000 ohiidreni murdered by alcohol am England. Ireland and ' Scotlamidi eaali year! And this is given aa the authority of the great Dr Norman Kerr. The writer of this 1 protest on belialf of Mrs Biartom (now of 45 years' medical, practice) iln. accordance wi*li /false teachings of his earlier day*, used aillcohoi 1 >as a medicine freely and difefully; but long since experience has forced: him to dneeontiinue its use, and for very many years he has aibsoliuteliv interdicted its employment inn'hospital and private work, with the happiest results. { WILLIAM H. HOSKINC, j t PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Masterton. Dccenib. .- Ist. 1911.