The Second International Temperance Congress, Held At Zürich, Switzerland ...
The Second International Temperance Congress, Held At Zürich, Switzerland ...
G Gallus Thomann
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When he began to practice medicine, thirty-five years ago, the medicinal use of alcohol waa so urgently deprecated that a contemporaneous writer on materia medica felt justified in saying : " The healthy receive too much Digitized by LjOOQIC . 39 alcohol; the sick, not enough." The practice has changed since then, and alcohol is generally administered. Of one thing Dr. Eahn claimed to be perfectly sure, from his own observa- tion and practice — namely, that in the state of convalescence f rOm a...cute diseases, the moderate use of wine aids the patient in more rapidly and easily regaining his normal strength ; and is to be recommended, -because, if for no other reason, it also helps to overcome the aversion to food usual in such cases. " As a medicine, alcohol," Dr. Rahn concluded, *• deserves to be prized highly ; it is a precious gift of God," Dr. DE Vaucleroy, of Brussels, stated briefly tiiat he did not consider alcohol as food in any sense, and could not admit that it is even " fuel-food." He drew a line of demarkation, however, between ethilic alcohol and amylic and methylic spirits, the relative toxic powers of which he stated to be as 1 to 7 ; and, what is more important, his whole argument was confined to distilled liquors.
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