MEDICAL OPINIONS

White Ribbon, Volume 32, Issue 369, 18 March 1926, Page 10

MEDICAL OPINIONS

(For which we make no charge). A N A BOM IN ATION. “All these medicated wines which are being foisted on the public are an abomination, and do an enormous amount of harm. The only people who derive any benefit are the individuals who foist them upon the public.”—Sir Jaa. Barr, M.D., F.R.C.P. Strong drink as a medicine is a weak excuse, jus a beverage a national calamity, as a thirst quencher a farcical expedient; as a home-wrecker, diseasebreeder, and poverty-producer, an excellent medium.

THE LARGE FACTOR. Upon investigation, I found 38 per cent, of our male tubercular patients were excessive users of alcohol, 56 per cent, moderate users. From my study of the cases, I am led to believe that in a vest majority of these cases drink has been a large factor in producing the disease, by exposure, lowering the vitality, etc. —O. C. Willhite, M.D., Superintendent of Cook County Hospital for Consumptives, Dunning, 111. UNDERTAKERS SUFFER. The year of 1921 has marked the lowest general death rate, and the lowest Infant death rate ever recorded in New York. The general death rate was considered phenomenally low in 1920, being 12.93 per 1000 of the population, but last year it went still lower — 11.17 per 1000 of the population. The infont death rate was 71.1 per 1000, the lowest rate ever reached by any great city. In 1920 It was 85 per 1000. If during the last quarter of a century I Live prescribed almost no alcohol in the treatment of disease, it is because I have found very little reason for its use—Sir James Rorr, Dean of the Medical School of Liverpool University.