Alcohol a Dangerous And Unnecessary Medicine: How And Why, What Medical ...
Alcohol a Dangerous And Unnecessary Medicine: How And Why, What Medical ...
Allen Martha Meir
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But I have never seen a case in which it had been used regularly for any considerable period of time, where it did not result in more or less indiges- tion from gastric irritation and disordered secretions, and an early failure in the secretion of milk. It probably never in- creases the flow of milk any more than would the drinking of the same quantity of pure water ; while the alcohol it contains, by daily repetition, induces congestion of the gastric mucous membrane, with disordered gastric a...nd hepatic secretions. " A case strikingly illustrating these results was examined by me to-day. The patient was a young married woman who was ALCOHOL AS A MEDICINE. 245 nursing her first child, now nine months old. At the time of her confinement she was in fair health, rather nervous tempera- ment, weight 120 pounds. During the first few days her milk did not flow very freely, and she says her physician advised her to drink beer. Consequently she commenced to drink a glass of beer at each mealtime, and a bottle during the night.
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