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OPENING EXERCISES. 19 cannot be admitted for want of room. Wlien it is positively known that we could save $350,000 annually in the maintenance of our insane hospitals by stopping the use of narcotics—whiskey, opium, cocaine, etc.— it would seem that we would do it as an economic proposition. Until we do this we should at least make preparation and treat these habitues before they become insane, and save them to their family, their friends, and the State, and make of them an economic asset instead of a total loss. Again we are maintaining an ambulance service in the valley below at great cost, rather than spend a few dollars to build a fence along the edge of the precipice to keep our people from falling. Again the doctor in North Carolina plays an important role. The doctors of North Carolina must work out these problems, and they have much to do with the enforcement of the whiskey and narcotic laws. These things will be fully discussed in the splendid symposium 011 Narcotics that forms an important part of the program of this meeting, and for that reason I leave the subject without further comment, except to say that wThiskey or opium or cocaine is just as harmful when put up in bottles and labeled PATENT MEDICINES and sold through advertisements in religious papers as it is when it is labeled "Whiskey" and sold in a barroom, or labeled "Opium," with the skull and crossbones displayed on the wrapper and sold through a drug store. And it is high time that the religious and all other self-respecting newspapers in our State cut themselves loose from the unholy alliance with the patent medicine frauds, by which alliance they are aiding and abetting in the sale of liquor, opium, cocaine, etc., to the people of our State (it is worthy of mention that the denominational paper of the Methodist Church in this State has already severed this alliance), or else they should come out boldly and say that they are opposed to the prohibition law; that they are opposed to restricting the sale of narcotics; and that they are in favor of perpetuating a practice that is destroying increasingly large numbers of our people—mind, body, and soul. The Last General Assembly and Its Attitude Towards Matters Medical.—It was a great pleasure to note the influence of the medical profession in North Carolina as shown in the last General Assembly. The improvement, or the increase of the stringency of the prohibition laws of the State would never have been considered for a moment had it not been for the action taken by this Society at the session in Raleigh, June, 1914, in regard to the prescribing of alcohol as a therapeutic agent, the said action being perhaps largely a result of the splendid deliverance
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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 | 1915 |
Identifier | NCHH-16-062 |
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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Volume Number | 62 |
Health Discipline | Medicine |
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Fixed Title * | Page 19 |
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 | 1915 |
Identifier | NCHH-16-062-0053 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Page Type | all; article; organizational news |
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 | 62 |
Page Number | 19 |
Health Discipline | Medicine |
Full Text | OPENING EXERCISES. 19 cannot be admitted for want of room. Wlien it is positively known that we could save $350,000 annually in the maintenance of our insane hospitals by stopping the use of narcotics—whiskey, opium, cocaine, etc.— it would seem that we would do it as an economic proposition. Until we do this we should at least make preparation and treat these habitues before they become insane, and save them to their family, their friends, and the State, and make of them an economic asset instead of a total loss. Again we are maintaining an ambulance service in the valley below at great cost, rather than spend a few dollars to build a fence along the edge of the precipice to keep our people from falling. Again the doctor in North Carolina plays an important role. The doctors of North Carolina must work out these problems, and they have much to do with the enforcement of the whiskey and narcotic laws. These things will be fully discussed in the splendid symposium 011 Narcotics that forms an important part of the program of this meeting, and for that reason I leave the subject without further comment, except to say that wThiskey or opium or cocaine is just as harmful when put up in bottles and labeled PATENT MEDICINES and sold through advertisements in religious papers as it is when it is labeled "Whiskey" and sold in a barroom, or labeled "Opium" with the skull and crossbones displayed on the wrapper and sold through a drug store. And it is high time that the religious and all other self-respecting newspapers in our State cut themselves loose from the unholy alliance with the patent medicine frauds, by which alliance they are aiding and abetting in the sale of liquor, opium, cocaine, etc., to the people of our State (it is worthy of mention that the denominational paper of the Methodist Church in this State has already severed this alliance), or else they should come out boldly and say that they are opposed to the prohibition law; that they are opposed to restricting the sale of narcotics; and that they are in favor of perpetuating a practice that is destroying increasingly large numbers of our people—mind, body, and soul. The Last General Assembly and Its Attitude Towards Matters Medical.—It was a great pleasure to note the influence of the medical profession in North Carolina as shown in the last General Assembly. The improvement, or the increase of the stringency of the prohibition laws of the State would never have been considered for a moment had it not been for the action taken by this Society at the session in Raleigh, June, 1914, in regard to the prescribing of alcohol as a therapeutic agent, the said action being perhaps largely a result of the splendid deliverance |
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Article Title | President'S Address |
Article Author | L. B. Mcbrayer |
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