The White Ribbon. "For God and Home and Humanity." WELLINGTON, MARCH 18, 1926. U.S.A. DOCTORS' OPINIONS

White Ribbon, Volume 32, Issue 369, 18 March 1926, Page 7

The White Ribbon. "For God and Home and Humanity." WELLINGTON, MARCH 18, 1926. U. S.A. DOCTORS' OPINIONS

"Alcohol produces fatty degeneration f tli* heart, hence cannot be a food to the heart-muscle.*' "Alcohol has no place In the treatment of the sick." “Alcoholic liquors arc rarely used as nic*ii■ ine except by’ foreigners and some of the doctors in high service" "Non-alcoholic treatment of pneumonia saves lives.”

"Alcohol is passing as a popular remedy." “Alcohol is rapidly going out of use as a medicine.” “As a medicine, alcohol has been a failure.” “I have seen a patient killed by whisky given to him by a friend in a case of Bright® disiase. I seldom hear of liquor being ordered by physicians nowadays.’*—Pres. County Medical Association, New Jersey. “If alcohol users nearly all die. when attacked by pneumonia, as is the case, why use alcohol in trying to cure this disease." “Increased vitality is necessary to resist infection. Alcohol lowers vitality. You cannot free the system of disease by clogging it as alcohol will.” “In pneumonia the use of alcohol adds a poison to a system already poisoned by the disease." “Alcohol is useless and harmful in pneumonia. I have not used alcohol in typhoid or pneumonia for 25 years.’ ‘*l believe that has no important uses in medicine, and 1 should rejoice to see Prohibition come.’ —Prof, of Medicine, Harvard. “1 have never had occasion to use any • U olioiic beverage internally in the treatment of disease. In my judgmem its use is detrimental.” —Dr. J. Earl Else, Portland, Oregon. “I have never known a single in stance in my entire experience of thirty ymrs, which includes a rather extensive practice, in which 1 thought alcohol had been ol the slightest benefit to any pa

tient, either in my piuctice or in the practice of anyone else. I cannot appreciate the mental process of any physician who advocates the use of alcohol in the practice of medicine or as a beverage."— Dr. R. C. Coffey, Portland, Oregon. “I do not consider alcohol one of the drugs necessary for the successful treat ment of life. I believe there are other liquors.”—l>r. (J. W. Garrison Little Rock. Arkansas, State Health Officer. “I get along successfully without the use of alcohol as medicine. I do not consider that it has food value, and it has very little medicinal value."—Dr. F. G. Murray, Tulso. Oklahoma. “If every one knew what alcohol is they would hesitate to drink it either as beverage or medicine. Alcohol Is a toxin. It Is a waste product thrown off from the bodies of bacteria (yeast), while

these organisms are feed ng on starches an i sugar. bacteria causes disease by means of their toxin. Alcohol being a toxin, causes disease in the same man ner as the toxin of any other diseaseproducing bacteria. When one drinks alcohol a waste product analogous to the waste products thrown oil by the human lmd> is being consumed. Alcohol is a narcotic sedative, and not a stimulant, except indirectly as an irritant. These are two interesting facts regarding alcohol not geneially known. If they were of common knowledge l am sure the National Prohibition Amendment would be unnecessary.”— Dr. Forrest C. Tyson. Augusta, Maine, Superintendent State Hospital. “Personally 1 see no necessity for the use of alcoholic liquors in the practice of medicine. ’- -I)r. Ray Lyman Wilbur, President American Medical Association 1923. “The focts as to the use of alcohol should Is* repeated and constantly pie sented before scientific medical bodies until the foolish old men who still cater to an alooholised clientele cease to have their present influence towards an unin telligent medical practice and the per petuation of a degrading custom.’’From a professor in a leading medical college of an Eastern State.