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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    this was highly detrimental, was a potent factor in the pro- duction of female drunkenness, and was wholly unnecessary. Alcohol should never be given for the relief of pain, as such; and never unless by the careful direction of a skilled and thoughtful practitioner. Other causes of the intemper- ance of women were then considered, including hereditary alcoholism, and dipsomania from disordered or exaggerated physical conditions. Treatment.—Total abstinence was a sine qud non. No alcoholic liquor must he given to the female drunkard even as a medicine, and she must not he allowed to approach a communion table where any fermented or other intoxicating wine was used. To restore the debilitated state of the brain and nervous centres it was desirable to employ gentian or other tonics, Parish’s chemical food, iron with calumba, or such agreeable sparkling brain and nerve tonics as the new popular beverage—Zoedone. To allay the drink crave it might be useful to order capsicum, ginger, or other aromatics in hot water, bromides of potassium and ammonium, ipeca- cuanha in emetic doses, sips of iced or warm water, or fruit. For the building up anew of the whole system, bodily as well as mental, light and nourishing food was needed. Lentil and other soups were of great service, as also were hot drinks of milk, cocoa, coffee, tea, Liebig’s extract of meat, with fish, fowl, meat, and maltine, or other malt extract. With all these,^ sponging or bathing, exercise, and cheerful society were indispensable, the Turkish bath being especially useful. In dipsomania from internal functional disturbance or disease* the internal mischief must be remedied, when, unless the craving for alcohol has become a confirmed habit, this crav- ing will disappear and a permanent cure be the happy issue, d he dipsomaniac needs medical treatment for the body and