The Liquor Problem.
[This colvmn is paid for as as advkkTISKMENT.] Facts and Fallacies About Alcohol. Is Alcohol a Stimulant? (Extracts from an address delivered November 21st, 1904, by J. .Johnston, M.D., honorary surgeon to Bolton infirmary.) That alcohol is believed to be a powerful stimulant and restorative is shown by its universal use in any and every emergency. Does a woman faint or have a fit, it is brandy that is administered. Does a man sustain some serious irjury, we must have brandy. Is some one taken ill suddenly during the night, the policeman must help the distressed friends to get brandy from the nearest licensed house; and is not the supposed necessity for its prompt administration in sudden illness frequently used as an argument for the existence of licensed bars ? A stimulant is something which can impart energy or supply strength to the body, and this alcohol can never do, for scientific research has shown that any apparent stimulation of the mind or body by alcohol is fictitious, and such effect is to be explained, not by an increase of energy in the body, but by a liberation of the existing supply.
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Waikato Times, Volume LVII, Issue 8048, 3 November 1906, Page 1
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194The Liquor Problem. Waikato Times, Volume LVII, Issue 8048, 3 November 1906, Page 1
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