The Alcohol Error.

White Ribbon, Volume 7, Issue 79, 1 December 1901, Page 10

The Alcohol Error.

Professor Max Kassowitz, the wellknown Vienna clinic, asserts that the log mi concerning the nourishing ami strengthening character of alcohol is one of the fatal errors of science. He holds the view that the majority of physicians take up an inconsistent position with regard to the use of alcohol, for the reason that while they are well iware of its dangerous poisonous quali* ti s, they nevertheless contribute to nake permanent the false ideas concerning the value and effects of alcohol, .vhich are so generally disseminated. Kassowitz explains these inconsistencies >n the ground that the teaching which onsiders alcohol a food because it i> burned in the organism has held its ground despite many newer investigations which have shown its indefensibility. He is convinced that the ascribing of food properties to alcohol, based simply on theoretical consideration, is a grave scientific error, the removal of which is the most important preliminary condition to an effectual battle against alcoholism.