ALCOHOL —NOT A STIMULANT.
l)r. Courtenay C. Weeks, who was one of the speakers at the Jubilee Council Meetings, told a Glasgow meeting that alcohol is a poison that saps the very foundations of life. It still had a grip on the national life because of its deeprooted impression that it was a stimulant. It is not. It might excite and it might do other things, but all the &r*>at leaders of medical thought emphasize that from first to last, on all Parts of the nervous system and on every organ of tne human body, alcohol acts {us a narcotic.
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White Ribbon, Volume 32, Issue 374, 18 August 1926, Page 11
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100ALCOHOL—NOT A STIMULANT. White Ribbon, Volume 32, Issue 374, 18 August 1926, Page 11
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