Religious and educational aspects of temperance / by various authors.

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[1874?]
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Credit: Religious and educational aspects of temperance / by various authors. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    DOCTORS AND BRANDY. who, under his father’s dictation, writes me as follows —“ My father desires me to say that, after a verv extensive practice of more than sixty years, he firmlv believes that not a single life lias ever been saved by alcohol, but, on the contrary, that thousands have been hurried into a premature grave by its use.” He continues, “ My father has always been a most patient and accurate observer, and, when nearly seventy years of age, so highly were his researches esteemed that he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society, which, I need hardly say, is the highest honour that British Science can confer. I mention this that his opinion may have due weight even with a professor.” Another medical gentleman, whose relations are honoured citizens of this town, writes to me as follows —“ I would willingly defer to the larger experience of Professor Maclean, but I think that the cases where alcohol is the one thing between the patient and death could hardly apply, as he says, to a vast variety of cases. I should think them very exceptional.” Again, a physician in large practice, to whom I put the question implied in Dr. Maclean’s statement re- plies, “ In answer to your question, ‘ Do circumstances arise when alcohol alone stands between the patient and death?’ I say, No, if you have other medicines at command. I find no case of exhaustion that may not equally be relieved by the administration of am- monia, camphor, or aether, as with alcohol. For the last twelve years I have not administered alcohol in any form.” And now let me make a few quotations to justify my opinion, from the printed statements of medical men
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