Alcohol as a Food and Medicine: A Paper from the Transactions of the International Medical Congress, at Philadelphia, September, 1876 |
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Page 47 - Alcohol does not act as a food; it does not nourish tissues. It may diminish waste by altering the consistence and chemical properties of fluids and solids. It cuts short the life of rapidly growing bioplasm, or causes it to live more slowly'; and thus tends to cause a diseased texture, in which vital changes are abnormally active, to return to its normal and much less active condition. 3. In
Page 3 - English physicians the voice of warning to the people of Great Britain concerning the use of alcoholic beverages, we...
Page 103 - The ablest and most candid French work and authority on the manufacture of liquors (Duplais) discusses. the question from the stand-point of business integrity, and leaves it. without adverse decision. Prof. AB Prescott, the able chemist of Michigan University, in his work on the chemical examination of alcoholic liquor, says : " The term brandy, as used in commerce, without qualification, must be held by common consent to include artificial brandy.
Page 85 - And these alcoholic degenerations are certainly not confined to the notoriously intemperate. I have seen them in women accustomed to take wine in quantities not excessive, and who would have been shocked at the imputation that they were taking too much, although in their case the result proved that for them it was excess.
Page 37 - Upon this hypothesis, and upon this alone, so far as I can perceive, can be reconciled the facts that an increase of force and a diminution of the products of the decay of tissue attend upon the ingestion of alcohol.
Page 93 - I repeat, is of great moment, for, in the end, all these alcoholic fluids are depressants, and although at first, by their calling vigorously into play the natural forces, they seem to excite and are therefore called stimulants, they themselves supply no force...
Page 127 - As a medicine it is not well fitted for self-prescription by the laity, and the medical profession is not accountable for such administration or for the enormous evils arising therefrom.
Page 64 - The blood-vessels are subjected to change of structure by which their resistance and resilience are impaired ; and the true nervous matter is sometimes modified, by softening or shrinking of its texture, by degeneration of its cellular structure, or by interposition of fatty particles.
Page 28 - But even if the complete destruction within certain limits were quite clear, this fact alone would not guide us to the dietetic value of alcohol.
Page 118 - In brief and final enumeration, alcohol replaces more actively vital materials by oil and fibrous tissue ; it substitutes suppuration for new growth; it promotes caseous and earthy change ; it helps time to produce the effects of age ; and, in a word, is the genius of degeneration.