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Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why / What Medical Writers Say

Martha Meir Allen

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 370 pages

Martha Meir Allen's collection of essays, published by the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, argues that alcohol is a dangerous and unnecessary medicine. Drawing on medical writers and physicians' testimonies, it examines alcohol's effects, its use in pharmacy, and treatment without it. It offers a historical view of temperance activism and early medical debate.

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TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE:
Every effort has been made to replicate this text
as faithfully as possible; please see list of
printing issues at the end.
ALCOHOL
A DANGEROUS AND UNNECESSARY MEDICINE
HOW AND WHY
What Medical Writers Say
BY
MRS. MARTHA M. ALLEN
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.

CONTENTS.
Introduction5
Preface to Second Edition7
CHAPTER I.
History of the Study of Alcohol.
CHAPTER II.
The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
in Opposition to Alcohol as Medicine.
CHAPTER III.
Alcohol as a Producer of Disease.
CHAPTER IV.
Temperance Hospitals.
CHAPTER V.
The Effects of Alcohol Upon the Human
Body.
CHAPTER VI.
Alcohol as Medicine.
CHAPTER VII.
Alcohol in Pharmacy.
CHAPTER VIII.
Diseases, and Their Treatment Without
Alcohol.
CHAPTER IX.
Alcohol and Nursing Mothers.
CHAPTER X.
Comparative Death-Rates With and Without
the Use of Alcohol.
CHAPTER XI.

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Contents

  1. ALCOHOL
  2. A DANGEROUS AND UNNECESSARY MEDICINE HOW AND WHY What Medical Writers Say
  3. MRS. MARTHA M. ALLEN
  4. CONTENTS.
  5. INTRODUCTION.
  6. PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION.
  7. ALCOHOL.
  8. CHAPTER I.
  9. CHAPTER II.
  10. CHAPTER III.
  11. CHAPTER IV.
  12. CHAPTER V.
  13. CHAPTER VI.
  14. CHAPTER VII.
  15. CHAPTER VIII.
  16. CHAPTER IX.
  17. CHAPTER X.
  18. CHAPTER XI.
  19. CHAPTER XII.
  20. CHAPTER XIII.
  21. CHAPTER XIV.
  22. CHAPTER XV.
  23. CHAPTER XVI.
  24. CHAPTER XVII.
  25. INDEX
  26. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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