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ADDRESS OF H. B. PIERCE, M.D., RETIRING PRESIDENT, ETC. 69 demanding considerable attention among the profession, and as such demands our notice. Professor Carpenter has summed up the beneficial effects of alcoholic stimulants under two general heads : 1st, Recovery from shock from any cause, and 2d. In the treatment of acute disease from continued fevers, resistance to morbific agents, recovery therefrom and the consequent prostration that follows. The following declaration respecting alcohol has recently been published in the British medical journals. It is signed by two hundred and fifty-four physicians and surgeons, including some of the most distinguished names in the profession in Great Britain, Its appearance has naturally excited much criticism : " As it is believed that the inconsiderate prescription of large quantities of alcoholic liquids by medical men for their patients has given rise in many instances to the formation of intemperate habits, the undersigned, while unable to abandon the use of alcohol in certain cases of disease, are yet of the opinion that no medical practitioner should prescribe it without a sense of grave responsibility. They believe that alcohol, in whatever form, should be prescribed with as much care as any powerful drug, and that the directions for its use should be so framed as not to be interpreted as a sanction for excess or necessarily for the continuance of its use when the occasion is passed. "They are also of the opinion that many people immensely exaggerate the value of alcohol as an article of diet, and as no class of men see so much of its ill-effects and possess such power to restrain its abuse as the members of their own profession, they hold that every medical practitioner is bound to exert his utmost influence to inculcate habits of general moderation in the use of alcoholic liquids. Being also firmly convinced that the great amount of drinking of alcoholic liquids among the working classes of this country is one of the greatest evils of the day, destroying more than anything else the health, happiness and welfare of those classes and neutralizing, to a large extent, the great industrial prosperity which God has placed within the reach of this nation, the undersigned would gladly support any wise legislation which would tend to restrict within proper limits the use of alcoholic beverages and gradually introduce habits of temperance.''
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Fixed Title * | NCHH-19: North Carolina Medical Journal [1878-1899] |
Document Title | North Carolina Medical Journal [1878-1899] |
Subject Topical | Medicine -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical Other | Medicine -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Publisher | Wilmington; Charlotte : The Journal?, 1878-1899. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1884 |
Identifier | NCHH-19-014 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Language | English |
Rights | This item is part of the North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection. Some materials in the Collection are protected by U.S. copyright law. This item is presented by the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for research and educational purposes. It may not be republished or distributed without permission of the Health Sciences Library. |
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Sponsor | The North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection is an open access publishing initiative of the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Financial support for the initiative was provided in part by a multi-year NC ECHO (Exploring Cultural Heritage Online) digitization grant, awarded by the State Library of North Carolina, and funded through the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). |
Volume Number | 14 |
Health Discipline | Medicine |
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Catalog Record link | http://search.lib.unc.edu/search?R=UNCb1318861 |
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Fixed Title * | Page 69 |
Document Title | North Carolina Medical Journal [1878-1899] |
Subject Topical | Medicine -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical Other | Medicine -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Publisher | Wilmington; Charlotte : The Journal?, 1878-1899. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1884 |
Identifier | NCHH-19-014-0089 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Page Type | all; article |
Language | English |
Rights | This item is part of the North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection. Some materials in the Collection are protected by U.S. copyright law. This item is presented by the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for research and educational purposes. It may not be republished or distributed without permission of the Health Sciences Library. |
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Digital Collection | North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection |
Sponsor | The North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection is an open access publishing initiative of the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Financial support for the initiative was provided in part by a multi-year NC ECHO (Exploring Cultural Heritage Online) digitization grant, awarded by the State Library of North Carolina, and funded through the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). |
Volume Number | 14 |
Issue Number | 2 |
Page Number | 69 |
Health Discipline | Medicine |
Full Text | ADDRESS OF H. B. PIERCE, M.D., RETIRING PRESIDENT, ETC. 69 demanding considerable attention among the profession, and as such demands our notice. Professor Carpenter has summed up the beneficial effects of alcoholic stimulants under two general heads : 1st, Recovery from shock from any cause, and 2d. In the treatment of acute disease from continued fevers, resistance to morbific agents, recovery therefrom and the consequent prostration that follows. The following declaration respecting alcohol has recently been published in the British medical journals. It is signed by two hundred and fifty-four physicians and surgeons, including some of the most distinguished names in the profession in Great Britain, Its appearance has naturally excited much criticism : " As it is believed that the inconsiderate prescription of large quantities of alcoholic liquids by medical men for their patients has given rise in many instances to the formation of intemperate habits, the undersigned, while unable to abandon the use of alcohol in certain cases of disease, are yet of the opinion that no medical practitioner should prescribe it without a sense of grave responsibility. They believe that alcohol, in whatever form, should be prescribed with as much care as any powerful drug, and that the directions for its use should be so framed as not to be interpreted as a sanction for excess or necessarily for the continuance of its use when the occasion is passed. "They are also of the opinion that many people immensely exaggerate the value of alcohol as an article of diet, and as no class of men see so much of its ill-effects and possess such power to restrain its abuse as the members of their own profession, they hold that every medical practitioner is bound to exert his utmost influence to inculcate habits of general moderation in the use of alcoholic liquids. Being also firmly convinced that the great amount of drinking of alcoholic liquids among the working classes of this country is one of the greatest evils of the day, destroying more than anything else the health, happiness and welfare of those classes and neutralizing, to a large extent, the great industrial prosperity which God has placed within the reach of this nation, the undersigned would gladly support any wise legislation which would tend to restrict within proper limits the use of alcoholic beverages and gradually introduce habits of temperance.'' |
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Article Title | Address of H. B. Pierce, M. D., Retiring President, on the Duties of the Hour |
Article Author | Pierce, H. B. |
Volume Link | http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/search/collection/nchh/field/identi/searchterm/NCHH-19-014 |
Title Link | http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/search/collection/nchh/field/documa/searchterm/NCHH-19 |
Catalog Record link | http://search.lib.unc.edu/search?R=UNCb1318861 |
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