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Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why / What Medical Writers Say — Martha Meir Allen

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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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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