WHEN DOCTORS DIFFER.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 36, 19 August 1899, Page 3

WHEN DOCTORS DIFFER.

For many yeais tempeiance woifcrm hava stuven to relegate alcohol to .h« shelves of tbe chemist, and it is '<j comforting to us to find the eutois ot fallacy columns duing tiien best ] as i «( to prove that tlie cusperibAij ia tue •> >3» foi which that poison is eminently s'n'c'l. Why all this eagerness to show Uiat doctois aie acquainted with a poison called alcohol, and that sjme of them have a laige taith in its efficacy as a medicine? Jf the point is admitted, can it be cited as a reason why the community should peimit the licensee 'md piomiacuous ,sitlf of beverages containing irom live to fifty per cent of alcohol ? Would the liquor apologists advocat* the open sale of opium on the sama ground ?

The medicinal use of alcohol has no bearing on the questipn of No-license, and in any case cannot be settled by quoting isolated remarks made bj a doctor her* and there. Such isolated opinions fade into insiflnifioance compaied with the notable dftclaiations made to us m this century, and first of which, published in 1539, was signed by Sir A. Brodie, Kir A. Thompson Sir J. Hyre, Dr Marshall Hall, Dr A. Urcs, the 'Queen's ghysicians, and 82 other leaders in mediciue and surgery. This document declared the opinion to be erroneous that wine, beer or spnit wa» beneficial to health. In '^1847 more than two thousand erf tbe most eminent physicians and suigeoni including such men as hir B, Biodie, Mr J. Clarke, Mr W. Burnett, Mr J. Foiben, Sir H. Holland, iSir A. Munro, Sir. J. McGregor, Kir B. Christison, l>r W. R. Carpentei, Dr Copland, Dr Neil Arnold Dr A. Faare, Piofessoi3 Guy, Allen, Thompson, J'illei, McLeod, Andeison, McFariane, Dairney, Buchanan, Winstone, Paiis, Alison, Hyne, Hendeis'on, Laune, Couper, aad Simps jg» signed a declaiation, setting forth that perfect health is compatible with total abstinence from all mtoxicating beverages, and that total and univeisal u,b&tineno« from alcoholic liquors of all sous would gieatly contribute tp the health, the proupeiifcy, tbe moiahty, and the happiness the human race.

On January Ist, 1872, a declaration was published in tbe London Times signed by 279 leading membeis of the medical profession, including Hr Get*. Burrows, Bir Thos. Watson, Sir H. Holland, Sir W. Feigussou, Kir James ' age 1 ., Kir lionald" Mai tin, Kir Henry Thompson, Sir Duncan Gibb and Sir Jas BiudsUe. Of this declaration the Times said : "It n impossible not to attach very great Talu« to the delibeiate opinion of those who must know a good deal of the subject, and who aie not generally givan to exaggeration. That 280 medical men, including the most distinguished names in the profession should have agiee.l to a manifesto a«ainst the excessive aad incautious us* ot alcohol has taken the world rather by surpiise, as levealing a cettain unsuspcated background of knowledge and unanimity, i his famous document whether it be load with implicit agreement, or with cuticism, is certain to call attention totb.» history and actual Jesuits of a)coho!i« stimulants wherever tlioie are eyes to see, and reason to understand 1"

In 1872, America manifested her sympathy with the movement, and in May ot that year, at. the twenty-third aauuiii rnee.tmg of the American Medical Association—about a thousand members bein^ piesent— a lesolution to discourage tb# use of a'cobol m ruadioal practice was carried unanimously. Tti" res-jacc'ies ot Sir Bsnjamin Ward Bicuauison, (than whbru no, higher for more resent authoiity in this connection), ha ( v& placed mva.^aple evidence in tb» bauds- of tnobe who oppose 'tba um9 tfE alcohol. His evidence ftSr to a,!cob.oh« (phthisis' and he,i;t ' disease shows verj .clearly the v grave dangei in/ which even theWost moderate chip ker fataods. ', If 'apace pe.imi^e4 iwe' would publish {urthci^ovidenca-^f't'he'/idyaiiOiar of nfeujcal opmionlil tlie plater pouion of tius rpeat i ai;yj < „bujkth''3 fdiis^olo^^s^ul&be suf- . Js^ient-''to > *carr^ ; r dcaviekoiiJ-v ( «.wherever Cth^reare-eyea to sea/aQ&reasonV-uadeir-'&s&s? ': rl,'/- ;^l,OV^-,r" '/',.," % , ; r|3i4(^tS w ; 11 raoiAmbersthat I jjtßs' ( -ppstp' 0%% i^o-L^eease un^etih^ , vri ft j^iSgKl^ito, Vl^^e'hqolcoom ;o'ii"

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