Modern medical opinions on alcohol : being a series of lectures delivered by well-known medical men.
- Date:
- [1911?]
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Modern medical opinions on alcohol : being a series of lectures delivered by well-known medical men. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![ALCOHOL AND EFFICIENCY. [By Sir James Crichton-Browne, M.D., LL.D., &e.] In the course of his introductory address at the distribu- tion of prizes gained by students in the Medical School attached to Charing Cross Hospital, Sir Janies Crichton- Browne gave the following advice on the use of alcohol. After a warning concerning the dangers of insomnia and •concerning the still greater dangers of narcotics or stimu- lants taken as remedies for it, Sir James concluded his observations by a reference to the use of alcohol:— “ The mention of stimulants suggests to me that I may again, in my monitorial capacity, venture to say a word about ulcohol in connection with efficiency. I do not for one moment suppose that in speaking to you there could be any pro- priety in referring to alcohol in its ethical relations. The bibulous medical student is a creature of the past. If drinking songs are still heard at your friendly gatherings they are but old ballads commemorative of a kind of convivi- ality that is no more. The medical student of the period is not the midnight reveller described by the novelist of a by-gone generation, but a staid and self-respecting gentle- man, effervescent at times, as youth always is, but never rowdy. It is not against the vulgar abuse of alcohol that he has to be warned; of the evils of that he is cognisant in an especial degree. No; it is to the alleged use of alcohol that his attention should be drawn, to the question which still agitates our profession whether alcohol is a wholesome article of diet, and in moderation harmless to the brain-worker. Now I am not going to enter on that](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28052808_0023.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
