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4-02 the charlotte medical journal. few days, followed by large doses of hypo-phosphites, together with codeine, one half grain at night to control cough, which is often the only excuse given by patients for taking large amounts of "rock rye and glycerine" at bed time, which explains his being the subject of alcoholism. The diet in these cases should receive our special attention. It should be liberal and of a highly nutritious character, consisting mainly of milk, eggs, broths, rare beef, poultry, quail, or other wild game. To my mind the mistaken idea that whiskey is a specific for tuberculosis has unquestionably sent many a poor unfortunate to a premature grave, and on the other hand, many a foolish temperance crank, whose stomach would have tolerated and appreciated a little good whiskey, has gone steadily down for want of this stimulant. In conclusion, gentlemen, it is needless for me to say that you are the individuals who are brought directly in contact with this monster, and to whom the public is looking and appealing for a remedy. Let us give the matter more serious thought, and that the results of our treatment of inebriates will be more satisfactory to us, and we be elevated in the estimation of the public in general, is my sincere belief. discussion. Dr. Mellender.—It seems to me that the problem the essayist brings up for solution would have been simplified if he had considered the subject under two heads. Alcoholics should be divided into continuous and periodical drinkers. A continuous drinker may be cured whether you send him to a Keely cure or an inebriate asylum, or whether you lodge him in jail. He has a habit, and though he cannot, as a rule, extricate himself single handed on account of the great depression that follows the attempt to "break off," nevertheless, a few days of forcible restraint gives the cerebral vessels time to recover their normal condition—the nerve centres are properly nourished again and the man is himself. He may relapse, but the fault is his own. The case is different with the periodical drinker. He has a disease, and members of this class have my sympathy. It is a neurosis, and the aberation is transmitted by inheritance. The taste for whiskey is not inherited ; the progeny of alcoholics inherit some weakness of the nervous system and in men this shows itself frequently in easily acquiring the drink habit. Sometimes it takes the form of neurasthenia, and in females it may take the form of hysteria. No form of treatment will restore a periodical drinker. Your home treatment, Keely cure, confinement in prison, moral suasion, hypnotic influences—every thing fails on him. The spell come on with an awe frequently. The spirit moves him greatly and the explosion comes. The attacks resemble epilepsy, and it is just as difficult to effect a cure in one as the other. I endorse the writer's medicinal treatment. Nitrate of strychnine, hypodermi-cally, helps all classes of alcoholics, and it is the sheet anchor in tiding them over a crisis when threatened with "horrors" after the whiskey is withdrawn. I have some experience with tincture capsicum, a remedy recommended by most authorities for quieting the stomach and stimulating the cerebral vessels after alcohol is withdrawn, I have always been disappointed with it. In my hands it has usually had the effect of adding to the stomach derangement, causing vomiting, etc., thus depressing instead of stimulating the vascular system and nerve centres. Dr. Peavy.—I would like to endorse what the doctor has said in regard to the drink habit being in the nature of a neurosis- In no class of diseases is the element of heredity so marked as in nervous troubles, and this particular disease is just as much neurotic as any other form of nervous derangement. It is one of the class of troubles in the treatment of which mental depressions go along way. It is a very important point to keep in pretty close contact with the patient. Your personal hold on him will amount to a good deal in keeping him from breaking down. My personal belief is that it is not so much the direct and ligiti-mate effect of the treatment that does the work as the patient's confidence in the treatment and in the physician personally. In a few cases I have used daily applications of static electricity. It seemed in those cases that it was a good thing to get the patient in the habit of taking the electricity daily, if you could get him to believe that it supplied the need for whiskey, being in itself not destructive but tonic to the nervous system. Perhaps it was not better than anything else that would bring us in daily contact with the patient and inspire him with an equal amount of confidence. I believe that the effect of the Keely treatment is suggestive, Its effects are produced through the patient's psychic nature rather than his physical organism. There is no doubt that during its greatest popularity it did make some remarkable cures, temporary though they were, even though it was quackerv I would not tell a patient that static electricity was a cure-all, but I would tell him it was a valuable nerve
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Fixed Title * | NCHH-21: Charlotte Medical Journal [1892-1921] |
Document Title | Charlotte Medical Journal [1892-1921] |
Subject Topical | Medicine -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical Other | Medicine -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Description | Absorbed Carolina medical journal in 1908 and continued its vol. numbering with v. 58. Vol. 4, no. 3 (Mar. 1894) misnumbered as v. 4, no. 5. |
Publisher | Charlotte, N.C. : Blakey Print. House, 1892-1921. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1901 |
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Document Title | Charlotte Medical Journal [1892-1921] |
Subject Topical | Medicine -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical Other | Medicine -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Description | Absorbed Carolina medical journal in 1908 and continued its vol. numbering with v. 58. Vol. 4, no. 3 (Mar. 1894) misnumbered as v. 4, no. 5. |
Publisher | Charlotte, N.C. : Blakey Print. House, 1892-1921. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1901 |
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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 | 18 |
Issue Number | 5 |
Page Number | 406 |
Health Discipline | Medicine |
Full Text | 4-02 the charlotte medical journal. few days, followed by large doses of hypo-phosphites, together with codeine, one half grain at night to control cough, which is often the only excuse given by patients for taking large amounts of "rock rye and glycerine" at bed time, which explains his being the subject of alcoholism. The diet in these cases should receive our special attention. It should be liberal and of a highly nutritious character, consisting mainly of milk, eggs, broths, rare beef, poultry, quail, or other wild game. To my mind the mistaken idea that whiskey is a specific for tuberculosis has unquestionably sent many a poor unfortunate to a premature grave, and on the other hand, many a foolish temperance crank, whose stomach would have tolerated and appreciated a little good whiskey, has gone steadily down for want of this stimulant. In conclusion, gentlemen, it is needless for me to say that you are the individuals who are brought directly in contact with this monster, and to whom the public is looking and appealing for a remedy. Let us give the matter more serious thought, and that the results of our treatment of inebriates will be more satisfactory to us, and we be elevated in the estimation of the public in general, is my sincere belief. discussion. Dr. Mellender.—It seems to me that the problem the essayist brings up for solution would have been simplified if he had considered the subject under two heads. Alcoholics should be divided into continuous and periodical drinkers. A continuous drinker may be cured whether you send him to a Keely cure or an inebriate asylum, or whether you lodge him in jail. He has a habit, and though he cannot, as a rule, extricate himself single handed on account of the great depression that follows the attempt to "break off" nevertheless, a few days of forcible restraint gives the cerebral vessels time to recover their normal condition—the nerve centres are properly nourished again and the man is himself. He may relapse, but the fault is his own. The case is different with the periodical drinker. He has a disease, and members of this class have my sympathy. It is a neurosis, and the aberation is transmitted by inheritance. The taste for whiskey is not inherited ; the progeny of alcoholics inherit some weakness of the nervous system and in men this shows itself frequently in easily acquiring the drink habit. Sometimes it takes the form of neurasthenia, and in females it may take the form of hysteria. No form of treatment will restore a periodical drinker. Your home treatment, Keely cure, confinement in prison, moral suasion, hypnotic influences—every thing fails on him. The spell come on with an awe frequently. The spirit moves him greatly and the explosion comes. The attacks resemble epilepsy, and it is just as difficult to effect a cure in one as the other. I endorse the writer's medicinal treatment. Nitrate of strychnine, hypodermi-cally, helps all classes of alcoholics, and it is the sheet anchor in tiding them over a crisis when threatened with "horrors" after the whiskey is withdrawn. I have some experience with tincture capsicum, a remedy recommended by most authorities for quieting the stomach and stimulating the cerebral vessels after alcohol is withdrawn, I have always been disappointed with it. In my hands it has usually had the effect of adding to the stomach derangement, causing vomiting, etc., thus depressing instead of stimulating the vascular system and nerve centres. Dr. Peavy.—I would like to endorse what the doctor has said in regard to the drink habit being in the nature of a neurosis- In no class of diseases is the element of heredity so marked as in nervous troubles, and this particular disease is just as much neurotic as any other form of nervous derangement. It is one of the class of troubles in the treatment of which mental depressions go along way. It is a very important point to keep in pretty close contact with the patient. Your personal hold on him will amount to a good deal in keeping him from breaking down. My personal belief is that it is not so much the direct and ligiti-mate effect of the treatment that does the work as the patient's confidence in the treatment and in the physician personally. In a few cases I have used daily applications of static electricity. It seemed in those cases that it was a good thing to get the patient in the habit of taking the electricity daily, if you could get him to believe that it supplied the need for whiskey, being in itself not destructive but tonic to the nervous system. Perhaps it was not better than anything else that would bring us in daily contact with the patient and inspire him with an equal amount of confidence. I believe that the effect of the Keely treatment is suggestive, Its effects are produced through the patient's psychic nature rather than his physical organism. There is no doubt that during its greatest popularity it did make some remarkable cures, temporary though they were, even though it was quackerv I would not tell a patient that static electricity was a cure-all, but I would tell him it was a valuable nerve |
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Article Title | The Treatment Of Alcoholism |
Article Author | H. L. Baird, |
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