TERRIBLE INDICTMENT.

White Ribbon, Volume 32, Issue 369, 18 March 1926, Page 3

TERRIBLE INDICTMENT.

Dr. Haven Emerson, one time Commissioner of Health for New York City, now of the Medical department of Columbia Cniversity, says:—“Alcohol is of the Mime series as chloroform and ether. They release the levels of control. Each one shades from the top down. In every instance they aocooipiish their result by depressing some function. Alcohol may at times be a very useful drug, but it is a depressant and not a stimulant. In every test tin* non-alcohic beats the alcoholic. Dr. Emerson has prepared for his students the following statements regarding alcohol. evidently believing that the medical profession should harbour no delusions regarding the drug’s true nature: — “(1) Alcohol is a cause of death. (-) Alcohol is a cause of primary disease. (X) Alcohol causes disabilities through inheritance. (4) Alcohol lowers resistance to infection. (5) Alcohol increases susceptibility to poison from heavy metals. (6) Alcohol increases the mortality rate of infections. (7) Alcohol increases the severity, complications, ana time recovery of industrial accidents. (S) Alcohol increases the prevalence of venereal disease. (9) Alcohol increases ♦he general morbidy and mortality from other diseases than those* due directly to the use of alcohol. (10) Alcohol shortens the life span. (11) Alcohol is a depressant drug, a protoplasmic poison. (12) Alcohol delays and renders inaccurate neuro-muscular reactions. (IX) Alcohol reduces judgment, discrimination, endurance, and pfeision of action.” And that an indictment as is an indictment, and one which The Trade may well fair to fare. At long last Fold Science is bringing out the* truth about alcohol and its effects on the human system.