On Alcoholic Drinks As An Article of Diet for Nursing Mothers
On Alcoholic Drinks As An Article of Diet for Nursing Mothers
James Edmunds
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10 DIET FOR NURSING MOTHERS. I will contest on neither side, because I know that as yet physicians have never prescribed alcoholic fluids with any precision at all, either in regard to quality or quantity, the common alcoholic drinks being anything ; but I am prepared to contest, if under scientific administration alcohol he found to cure fever, that the medicine acts by lowering temperatui*e and checking waste, not by sustaining as food sustains the body. *' The alcohols are strictly anseesthe...tics, and, indeed, the first published case of surgical operation under ansesthetic sleep was performed in 1839, by Dr. Collier, on a negro, who was rendered insensible by breathing the fumes of alcohol. " Speaking honestly, I cannot, by the argument yet presented to me, admit the alcohols through any gate that might distinguish them as apart from other chemical bodies. I can no more accept them as foods than I can chloroform, or ether, or methylal. That they produce a temporary excitement is true, but as their general action is quickly to reduce animal heat, I cannot see how they can supply animal force.
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