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90 NORTH CAROLINA MEDICAL SOCIETY. PREVENTION OF INSANITY BY THE PROPER TREATMENT OF WHISKEY AND DRUG HABITUES. Dr. Albert Anderson. We have a large crop of people so naturally endowed and so nurtured by the effects of whiskey and drugs that we must recognize the problem of heredity and solve it in every possible way if we expect to eradicate or modify these avoidable causes of insanity. Our parents and grandparents were reared at a time when it was the polite custom universally observed to treat their friends with the delicious mint julep in their homes and vie with each other in hospitality in the barroom. These customs have produced a large per cent of our hospital population today, through heredity. These customs in the South are no longer in vogue, and their decay seems to be spreading with astonishing rapidity not only in this country, but wherever full efficiency must be had in service of war or peace. Whiskey or its equivalent, and opium or its equivalent, are done to the death overnight, as may be illustrated in Russia and China. After their total abolition it will take generations to remove the last vestige of this hereditary cause of insanity; but after one generation its good effects will be pronounced as proven in those States which have had prohibition for a generation. The patients admitted to our hospitals suffering from the use or abuse of alcohol are drunkards who get well or return to an apparent normal condition when they get sober. This class of patients from the direct influence of whiskey are few compared to those types of insanity whose drinking is only an expression of a psychopathic constitution that finally develops into dementia precox, manic-depressive insanity, epilepsy, the feeble-minded, etc. The free use of whiskey by former generations has produced a generation with a weakened nervous system, whose nervous constitution is so frail that it succumbs to the slightest strain brought about by disappointment, hard work, worry, insomnia, and of the strenuous life of modern society and business competition. For the treatment of the whiskey class who cannot be controlled outside of an institution I understand the Belgian plan is feasible and works well. It is this: The chronic alcoholics are colonized and made to support not only themselves, but another class of dependents, namely, the pauper tubercular class. This segregation will prevent offspring with inherited natures for the above diseases and at the same time afford a living for the indigent tubercular.
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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 90 |
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-16-062-0126 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Page Type | all; article; article title |
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 | 90 |
Health Discipline | Medicine |
Full Text | 90 NORTH CAROLINA MEDICAL SOCIETY. PREVENTION OF INSANITY BY THE PROPER TREATMENT OF WHISKEY AND DRUG HABITUES. Dr. Albert Anderson. We have a large crop of people so naturally endowed and so nurtured by the effects of whiskey and drugs that we must recognize the problem of heredity and solve it in every possible way if we expect to eradicate or modify these avoidable causes of insanity. Our parents and grandparents were reared at a time when it was the polite custom universally observed to treat their friends with the delicious mint julep in their homes and vie with each other in hospitality in the barroom. These customs have produced a large per cent of our hospital population today, through heredity. These customs in the South are no longer in vogue, and their decay seems to be spreading with astonishing rapidity not only in this country, but wherever full efficiency must be had in service of war or peace. Whiskey or its equivalent, and opium or its equivalent, are done to the death overnight, as may be illustrated in Russia and China. After their total abolition it will take generations to remove the last vestige of this hereditary cause of insanity; but after one generation its good effects will be pronounced as proven in those States which have had prohibition for a generation. The patients admitted to our hospitals suffering from the use or abuse of alcohol are drunkards who get well or return to an apparent normal condition when they get sober. This class of patients from the direct influence of whiskey are few compared to those types of insanity whose drinking is only an expression of a psychopathic constitution that finally develops into dementia precox, manic-depressive insanity, epilepsy, the feeble-minded, etc. The free use of whiskey by former generations has produced a generation with a weakened nervous system, whose nervous constitution is so frail that it succumbs to the slightest strain brought about by disappointment, hard work, worry, insomnia, and of the strenuous life of modern society and business competition. For the treatment of the whiskey class who cannot be controlled outside of an institution I understand the Belgian plan is feasible and works well. It is this: The chronic alcoholics are colonized and made to support not only themselves, but another class of dependents, namely, the pauper tubercular class. This segregation will prevent offspring with inherited natures for the above diseases and at the same time afford a living for the indigent tubercular. |
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Article Title | Prevention Of Insanity By The Proper Treatment Of Whiskey And Drug Habitues |
Article Author | Albert Anderson |
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