On the use of alcohol as a medicine / by T.K. Monro and John Wainman Findlay.
- Thomas Kirkpatrick Monro
- Date:
- [1904]
Licence: In copyright
Credit: On the use of alcohol as a medicine / by T.K. Monro and John Wainman Findlay. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![ON THE TJSE OF ALCOHOL AS A MEDICINE.^ By T. K. MONRO, iVI.A., M.D., F.F.P.S.G., Physician to the Glasgow Royal Infirmary, and Professor of Medicine in St. Mungo's College, AND JOHN WAIN MAN FINDLAY, M.D., Assistant Physician to the Glasgow Royal Infirmary, and Assistant to the ' Professor of Medicine in St. Mungo's College. [Dr. Monro.] c Time brings about many changes in the principles and practice of medicine—in some instances slowly, and in others very quickly. We have an example of rapid changes in practice in the case of potassium bromide, which was introduced into the London Fharmacopoeia in 1835, because of its supposed value in splenic enlargements; was removed from it in 1851, as inert and useless; and entered again into favour in 1857 and later years, on account of its value in epilepsy. It is now well known as the sovereign remedy for that disease, and the consumpt of this drug at the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic in one recent year was reported as amounting to more than a ton and a half. The way in which drugs, both new and old, fall from positions of esteem is so well known to all that no example need be mentioned. An instance of change in our views as to the action of a medicine is seen in the case of digitalis, which not very many years ago w^as regarded as a narcotic and cardiac sedative. It was supposed to be of value in weakening the pulse when the heart was beating too strongly, and to be dangerous when the pulse was weak and irregular. I need scarcely remind you that these opinions are almost 1 Introduction to a discussion at the Glasgow Southern Medical Society on 31st March, 1904. It is to be noted that the question of alcoholic drinks as beverages was entirely outwitli the scope of the discussion, and was not considered by any of the speakers. A](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21466749_0005.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
