Chapter I: Front Matter

CHAPTER I.

HISTORY OF THE STUDY OF ALCOHOL.

Discovery of distillation--First American investigator of
effects of alcohol--Medical Declarations--Sir B. W.
Richardson's researches--Scientific Temperance Instruction
in American Schools--Committee of Fifty 9

CHAPTER II.

THE WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION IN OPPOSITION TO ALCOHOL AS MEDICINE.

How the Opposition began--Memorial to International
Medical Congress--Origin of Medical Temperance
Department--Objects of the department--Public agitation
against patent medicines originated by the department--Laws
of Georgia, Alabama and Kansas on Medical
prescription of alcohol 21

CHAPTER III.

ALCOHOL AS A PRODUCER OF DISEASE.

Alcohol a poison--Sudden deaths from brandy--Changes
in liver, kidneys, heart, blood-vessels and nerves caused
by alcohol--Beer and wine as harmful as the stronger
drinks--Alcohol causes indigestion--Other diseases
caused by alcohol--Deaths from alcoholism in Switzerland 28

CHAPTER IV.

TEMPERANCE HOSPITALS.

The London Temperance Hospital--Methods of treatment--The Frances
E. Willard Temperance Hospital, Chicago--"As a beverage" in the
pledge--Address by Miss Frances E. Willard at opening of
hospital--The Red Cross Hospital--Clara Barton and non-alcoholic
medication--Reports of treatment in Red Cross Hospital--Use of
Alcohol declining in other hospitals 37

CHAPTER V.

THE EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL UPON THE HUMAN BODY.

The body composed of cells--Effect of alcohol on cells--Alcohol
and Digestion--Effects on the blood--The heart--The liver--The
kidneys--Incipient Bright's disease recovered from by total
abstinence--Retards oxidation and elimination of waste
matters--Lengthens duration of sickness and increases mortality 58

CHAPTER VI.

ALCOHOL AS MEDICINE.

Medical use of alcohol a bulwark of the liquor traffic--Alcohol
not a Food--Alcohol reduces temperature--Food principle of grains
and fruits destroyed by fermentation--Alcohol not a
Stimulant--Experiments proving this--Alcohol not a
tonic--Professor Atwater on Alcohol as Food 96

CHAPTER VII.

ALCOHOL IN PHARMACY.

Strong tinctures rouse desire for drink in reformed
inebriates--Glycerine and acetic acid to preserve
drugs--Non-alcohol tinctures in use at London Temperance
Hospital--Sale of liquor in drug-stores condemned by pharmacists 131

CHAPTER VIII.

DISEASES, AND THEIR TREATMENT WITHOUT ALCOHOL.

Alcoholic Craving--Anaemia--Apoplexy--Boils and
Carbuncle--Catarrh--Hay-Fever--Colds--Colic--Cholera--Cholera
Infantum--Consumption--Displacements--Debility--Diarrhoea--
Dysentery--Dyspepsia--Fainting--Fits--Flatulence--Headache--
Hemorrhage--Heart Disease--Heart Failure--Insomnia--La
Grippe--Measles--Malaria--Neuralgia--Nausea--Pneumonia--Pain After
Food--Snake-bite--Rheumatism--Spasms--Shock--Sudden
Illness--Sunstroke--Typhoid Fever--Vomiting 140

CHAPTER IX.

ALCOHOL AND NURSING MOTHERS.

Beer not good for nursing mothers--Helpful diet--Opinions of
medical men--Analysis of milk of a temperate woman--Of a drinking
woman--Advice of Dr. James Edmunds, of the Lying-In Hospital,
London--How to feed the baby--Case of a young mother who used
beer--Nathan S. Davis on beer and gin 234

CHAPTER X.

COMPARATIVE DEATH-RATES WITH AND WITHOUT THE USE OF ALCOHOL.

Fewer deaths in smallpox hospitals without alcohol--200 cases of
scarlet fever without alcohol--Non-alcoholic treatment of fevers
with less than 5 per cent. death-rate--Report of cases in English
and Scotch hospitals--340 cases of typhus--London Lancet articles
on typhoid--Mercy Hospital, Chicago--Death-rates in pneumonia and
typhoid in large hospitals--Sir B. W. Richardson's report of
practice 247

CHAPTER XI.

REASONS WHY ALCOHOL IS DANGEROUS AS MEDICINE.

Researches of Abbott--Vital Resistance lowered by
alcohol--Experiments upon Urinary Toxicity--Effect of alcohol upon
the guardian-cells of the body--Dr. Sims Woodhead on
immunity--Delearde's experiments at the Pasteur Institute--Dr. A.
Pearce Gould on alcohol and cancer--Delirium in illness caused by
alcohol 262

CHAPTER XII.

WHY DOCTORS STILL PRESCRIBE ALCOHOLICS.

Public often demand it--Lack of knowledge of true nature of
alcohol--Alcohol given undeserved credit for recoveries--Use of
alcohol results from custom--Education of the people in teachings
of non-alcoholic physicians necessary--Prescription of alcohol a
matter of routine--Two examples 291

CHAPTER XIII.

ALCOHOLIC PROPRIETARY OR "PATENT" MEDICINES.

The Pure Food Law--The guarantee--Newspaper opposition to the
law--Headache remedies--Fake testimonials--Dangers of soothing
syrups and morphine cough syrups--Fraud orders issued by
Post-Office Department--Internal Revenue Department and Patent
Medicines--Proprietary "Foods" strongly alcoholic--Alcoholic
Cod-Liver Oil preparations--Australia's Royal Commission on Patent
Medicines--Committee on Pharmacy analyses--Malt extracts--Coca
Wines--Advertising, the strength of the Nostrum business--An
effectual remedy 299

CHAPTER XIV.

DRUGGING.

Drugs do not cure disease--Nature cures--Opinions of drug
medication of prominent physicians--La grippe caused by drug
taking--Coal-tar drugs--Quinine--Sir Frederick Treves on disuse of
drugs--People demand drugs of physicians--Mothers make drug
victims of their children--Habit-producing drugs--Causes of
drug-taking--How to be well 335

CHAPTER XV.

TESTIMONIES OF PHYSICIANS AGAINST ALCOHOLIC MEDICATION.

No need for substitutes for alcohol--Alcohol hides symptoms of
disease--Responsibility of physicians--Opinions of many teachers
in medical colleges--Hot milk better than alcohol--_Journal of the
American Medical Association_ on researches of Abbott and
Laitinen--Resolution against alcohol of West Virginia Medical
Society--Dr. Knox Bond on Scarlet Fever--Metchnikoff on white
blood-cells--Kassowitz describes his treatment of fevers--Sims
Woodhead's opinions--Opinions of German Physicians--Dr. Harvey
blames medical profession for careless use of alcohol and
opium--Use of Alcohol declining rapidly in medical practice 356

CHAPTER XVI.

RECENT RESEARCHES UPON ALCOHOL.

Experiments of Laitinen--Resistance of blood-cells to disease
lowered by alcohol--International Congress on Alcoholism, London,
1909--Alcohol and Immunity--Effect of Alcohol Drinking on Human
Off-spring--Researches of Kraepelin and Aschaffenberg--Economic
losses by reduced work through beer and wine drinking--Researches
of Dr. Reid Hunt--Mice given alcohol killed by small doses of
poison--Difference in effect of alcohol and starch
foods--Chittenden on food theory of alcohol--Researches of Dr. S.
P. Beebe--Liver impaired by alcohol--Dr. Winfield S. Hall's
interpretation of the researches of Beebe and Hunt--Oxidation of
alcohol by liver a protective action--Researches show that alcohol
is a poison, not a food 392

CHAPTER XVII.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Alcohol Baths--Beverages for the Sick--Tobacco and the
Eyesight--Advertised "Cures" for Drunkenness--How to quit
drinking--Dr. T. D. Crothers' remedy for drink crave--Alcohol and
Children--Alcohol Tested--Beer-Drinking Injurious to Health--Drug
Drinks--Special Directions for Women--Total Abstinence and Life
Insurance--Opinions of Life Insurance Companies on drinkers as
risks 410