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Title: Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why
What Medical Writers Say

Author: Martha M. Allen

Release Date: October 4, 2008 [EBook #26774]

Language: English

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ALCOHOL

A DANGEROUS AND UNNECESSARY MEDICINE

HOW AND WHY

What Medical Writers Say

BY

MRS. MARTHA M. ALLEN

Superintendent of the Department of Medical Temperance
for the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union

Published by the

DEPARTMENT OF MEDICAL TEMPERANCE OF THE
NATIONAL WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION

MARCELLUS, NEW YORK

COPYRIGHT, 1900.

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CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTION 5

PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION 7

CHAPTER I.

HISTORY OF THE STUDY OF ALCOHOL.

Discovery of distillation--First American investigator of
effects of alcohol--Medical Declarations--Sir B. W.
Richardson's researches--Scientific Temperance Instruction
in American Schools--Committee of Fifty 9

CHAPTER II.

THE WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION IN
OPPOSITION TO ALCOHOL AS MEDICINE.

How the Opposition began--Memorial to International
Medical Congress--Origin of Medical Temperance
Department--Objects of the department--Public agitation
against patent medicines originated by the department--Laws
of Georgia, Alabama and Kansas on Medical
prescription of alcohol 21