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CHEMISTRY, MATERIA MEDICA AND THERAPEUTICS 251 THE USE AND ABUSE OF ALCOHOL IN PRACTICE G. H. Macon, M. D., Warrenton Prohibition is a settled question in North Carolina as regards the average healthy individual, but what about the sick who are really in need of alcohol? The laws of the State are so framed that it is absolutely illegal to procure whiskey or brandy for medicinal purposes. In conversation recently with a friend who is interested in a large hospital in North Carolina, ancl who is doing real scientific work, the question of whiskey stimulation came up. I inquired of him if he used whiskey in his institution. His reply was, "Yes, all the good whiskey we can get." "Where do you get it from?" His reply was, "We have to depend upon the bootlegger for our supply, I'm sorry to say, but we find it absolutely essential in our institution to use it, ancl the State law makes no provision for us to procure it, so we are at the mercy of the bootlegger, ancl every time we get this whiskey we are adding to the wave of lawlessness which is sweeping our State." I asked a prominent baby specialist his opinion in regard to the use of brandy or whiskey as an aid in the practice of pediatrics. His reply was, "I would feel pretty helpless with a desperate case of pneumonia in a child without some form of alcoholic stimulation to combat the dangerous symptoms." In the elderly who are convalescing from acute infectious illnesses I am firmly convinced that the proper use of alcohol under these circumstances shortens the convalescence ancl improves their appetites ancl sense of wTell-being, ancl depriving patients of alcohol when it is indicated wrould be just as bad practice as to put some one by the side of their bed at night and deprive them of a night 's rest. Alcohol is invaluable in poisoning by the cardiac depressants ancl snake venom, and in impending cardiac failure from any cause. When the first sound of the heart in pneumonia becomes feeble and dull, I have never found any preparation that would take the place of whiskey. It is an absolute necessity in the treatment of acute lobar pneumonia if the patient has been accustomed to its daily use as a beverage, but in other subjects of the disease it is best to give it at the crisis only, to tide the patient over a brief period of extreme danger. In desperate cases of cholera infantum in children good brandy in moderate doses has certainly obtained results for me. Stimulants are unnecessary for the young and for people living perfectly healthy lives, but under the stress ancl struggle of modern civilization few of us beyond middle age are placed under normal physiological conditions ancl a little alcohol helps us to round the corners ancl to plane the experites of existence. Alcohol or whiskey is a stimulant, tonic, sedative, digestive, a food, and, unless we run into excess, no physical damage can pos-
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Fixed Title * | NCHH-16: Transactions of the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina [1891-1939] |
Document Title | Transactions of the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina [1891-1939] |
Subject Topical | Medicine -- North Carolina -- Societies, etc. |
Subject Topical Other | Societies, Medical -- North Carolina. |
Description | After 1939 transactions published in the North Carolina Medical Journal |
Creator | Medical Society of the State of North Carolina. Annual Session. |
Publisher | Raleigh, N.C. : Medical Society of the State of North Carolina, 1891-1939. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1924 |
Identifier | NCHH-16-071 |
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Language | English |
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Document Title | Transactions of the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina [1891-1939] |
Subject Topical | Medicine -- North Carolina -- Societies, etc. |
Subject Topical Other | Societies, Medical -- North Carolina. |
Description | After 1939 transactions published in the North Carolina Medical Journal |
Creator | Medical Society of the State of North Carolina. Annual Session. |
Publisher | Raleigh, N.C. : Medical Society of the State of North Carolina, 1891-1939. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1924 |
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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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Volume Number | 71 |
Page Number | 251 |
Health Discipline | Medicine |
Full Text | CHEMISTRY, MATERIA MEDICA AND THERAPEUTICS 251 THE USE AND ABUSE OF ALCOHOL IN PRACTICE G. H. Macon, M. D., Warrenton Prohibition is a settled question in North Carolina as regards the average healthy individual, but what about the sick who are really in need of alcohol? The laws of the State are so framed that it is absolutely illegal to procure whiskey or brandy for medicinal purposes. In conversation recently with a friend who is interested in a large hospital in North Carolina, ancl who is doing real scientific work, the question of whiskey stimulation came up. I inquired of him if he used whiskey in his institution. His reply was, "Yes, all the good whiskey we can get." "Where do you get it from?" His reply was, "We have to depend upon the bootlegger for our supply, I'm sorry to say, but we find it absolutely essential in our institution to use it, ancl the State law makes no provision for us to procure it, so we are at the mercy of the bootlegger, ancl every time we get this whiskey we are adding to the wave of lawlessness which is sweeping our State." I asked a prominent baby specialist his opinion in regard to the use of brandy or whiskey as an aid in the practice of pediatrics. His reply was, "I would feel pretty helpless with a desperate case of pneumonia in a child without some form of alcoholic stimulation to combat the dangerous symptoms." In the elderly who are convalescing from acute infectious illnesses I am firmly convinced that the proper use of alcohol under these circumstances shortens the convalescence ancl improves their appetites ancl sense of wTell-being, ancl depriving patients of alcohol when it is indicated wrould be just as bad practice as to put some one by the side of their bed at night and deprive them of a night 's rest. Alcohol is invaluable in poisoning by the cardiac depressants ancl snake venom, and in impending cardiac failure from any cause. When the first sound of the heart in pneumonia becomes feeble and dull, I have never found any preparation that would take the place of whiskey. It is an absolute necessity in the treatment of acute lobar pneumonia if the patient has been accustomed to its daily use as a beverage, but in other subjects of the disease it is best to give it at the crisis only, to tide the patient over a brief period of extreme danger. In desperate cases of cholera infantum in children good brandy in moderate doses has certainly obtained results for me. Stimulants are unnecessary for the young and for people living perfectly healthy lives, but under the stress ancl struggle of modern civilization few of us beyond middle age are placed under normal physiological conditions ancl a little alcohol helps us to round the corners ancl to plane the experites of existence. Alcohol or whiskey is a stimulant, tonic, sedative, digestive, a food, and, unless we run into excess, no physical damage can pos- |
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Article Title | The Use And Abuse Of Alcohol In Practice |
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