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Superintendent of the Department of Medical Temperance for the
National Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
Published by the
DEPARTMENT OF MEDICAL TEMPERANCE
OF THE
NATIONAL WOMAN’S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION
Marcellus, New York
Copyright, 1900.
Introduction5
Preface to Second Edition7
Discovery of distillation--First American investigator ofeffects of alcohol--Medical Declarations--Sir B. W.Richardson's researches--Scientific Temperance Instructionin American Schools--Committee of Fifty9
How the Opposition began—Memorial to InternationalMedical Congress—Origin of Medical Temperance Department—Objectsof the department—Public agitationagainst patent medicines originated by the department—Lawsof Georgia, Alabama and Kansas on Medicalprescription of alcohol21
Alcohol a poison—Sudden deaths from brandy—Changesin liver, kidneys, heart, blood-vessels and nerves causedby alcohol—Beer and wine as harmful as the strongerdrinks—Alcohol causes indigestion—Other diseasescaused by alcohol—Deaths from alcoholism in Switzerland28
The London Temperance Hospital—Methods of treatment—TheFrances E. Willard Temperance Hospital,Chicago—“As a beverage" in the pledge—Address byMiss Frances E. Willard at opening of hospital—The[Pg iv]Red Cross Hospital—Clara Barton and non-alcoholicmedication—Reports of treatment in Red Cross Hospital—Useof Alcohol declining in other hospitals37
The body composed of cells—Effect of alcohol on cells—Alcoholand Digestion—Effects on the blood—Theheart—The liver—The kidneys—Incipient Bright’s diseaserecovered from by total abstinence—Retards oxidationand elimination of waste matters—Lengthensduration of sickness and increases mortality58
Medical use of alcohol a bulwark of the liquor traffic—Alcoholnot a Food—Alcohol reduces tempera