Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why / What Medical Writers Say
by Martha Meir Allen
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Contents
- Introduction
- Preface to Second Edition
- 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. The London Temperance Hospital
- Chapter V. The Effects of Alcohol Upon the Human Body
- Chapter VI. Alcohol as a 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 as a Remedy
- Chapter XI. Reasons Why Alcohol Is Dangerous as Medicine
- Chapter XII. Why Doctors Still Prescribe Alcoholics
- Chapter XIII. Alcoholic Proprietary or ‘Patent’ Medicines
- Chapter XIV. “Drugging.”
- Chapter XV. Testimonies of Physicians Against Alcoholic Medication
- Chapter XVI. Recent Researches Upon Alcohol
- Chapter XVII. Miscellaneous