--Helpful diet--Opinions of
medical men--Analysis of milk of a temperate woman--Of a drinking
woman--Advice of Dr. James Edmunds, of the Lying-In Hospital,
London--How to feed the baby--Case of a young mother who used
beer--Nathan S. Davis on beer and gin 234
CHAPTER X.
COMPARATIVE DEATH-RATES WITH AND WITHOUT THE USE OF ALCOHOL.
Fewer deaths in smallpox hospitals without alcohol--200 cases of
scarlet fever without alcohol--Non-alcoholic treatment of fevers
with less than 5 per cent. death-rate--Report of cases in English
and Scotch hospitals--340 cases of typhus--London Lancet articles
on typhoid--Mercy Hospital, Chicago--Death-rates in pneumonia and
typhoid in large hospitals--Sir B. W. Richardson's report of
practice 247
CHAPTER XI.
REASONS WHY ALCOHOL IS DANGEROUS AS MEDICINE.
Researches of Abbott--Vital Resistance lowered by
alcohol--Experiments upon Urinary Toxicity--Effect of alcohol upon
the guardian-cells of the body--Dr. Sims Woodhead on
immunity--Delearde's experiments at the Pasteur Institute--Dr. A.
Pearce Gould on alcohol and cancer--Delirium in illness caused by
alcohol 262
CHAPTER XII.
WHY DOCTORS STILL PRESCRIBE ALCOHOLICS.
Public often demand it--Lack of knowledge of true nature of
alcohol--Alcohol given undeserved credit for recoveries--Use of
alcohol results from custom--Education of the people in teachings
of non-alcoholic physicians necessary--Prescription of alcohol a
matter of routine--Two examples 291
CHAPTER XIII.
ALCOHOLIC PROPRIETARY OR "PATENT" MEDICINES.
The Pure Food Law--The guarantee--Newspaper opposition to the
law--Headache remedies--Fake testimonials--Dangers of soothing
syrups and morphine cough syrups--Fraud orders issued by
Post-Office Department--Internal Revenue Department and Patent
Medicines--Proprietary "Foods" strongly alcoholic--Alcoholic
Cod-Liver Oil preparations--Australia's Royal Commission on Patent
Medicines--Committee on Pharmacy analyses--Malt extracts--Coca
Wines--Advertising, the strength of the Nostrum business--An
effectual remedy 299
CHAPTER XIV.
DRUGGING.
Drugs do not cure disease--Nature cures--Opinions of drug
medication of pro
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