Women and Alcohol.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XXIII, Issue 6602, 6 May 1890, Page 1

Women and Alcohol.

"-' ♦• Dr Norman Keru has been interviewed by a correspondent of 'Woimn upon the increasing use of narcotics by women. Alcohol, he says, is tlfe most frequently used narcotic. "But I could give,>youa formidable list of narcotics which women in all ranks of society are daily using:~ Chloral, chlorodyne, e'her, chloroform (less used by women here than iu America), eal volatile,'eau de'-Co'ogn'e, and'so on. , I have known Indies addicted b alcohol drink three bottles of brandy a day. A bottle » dayisby no means an uncommon quantity. I have had pafien's who h»d habituated themselves to two oences (960 grains) of chloral, us iheir . daily allowance, Twenty, giains of chloral, I may sny. is a full medicinal dose. , I>hate treated patients \vhu hive been in the habit of swallow ng eight ounces of cblorodyne a day;ni-dl have known ladies who could tdko a pint of chloiodyne in the twenty fW hours. -• Both Km and coffee are used in excess. I (ound a patient insensible in her room. one day who had drunk nothing but tea. But slio had consumed n pint in (he dny. Tobacco, iu the form of cigars as well as of curettes, is constantly r.:s- rti d to by women. Thirty cigarettes " day has been the allowance of some of my patients." , ; -