MEDICAL TEMPERANCE.

White Ribbon, Volume 19, Issue 218, 18 August 1913, Page 12

MEDICAL TEMPERANCE.

Dear Fellow-Workers, — This department presents to the W.U.T.U., and through it to the people in general, the teachings of eminent physicians who discard alcohol as a medicine. It seeks to educate the public as to the danger of sell-medication with powerful drugs, especially in the form of patent or proprietary medicines, and it exposes fraudulent medicines. It endeavours also to win the attention of physicians who prescribe alcoholic liquors, to the teachings of great leaders in their profession who have abandoned such practice. It brings to the attention of nurses the same teachings, and seeks their co-operation in education against the self-prescription of alcohol.” in previous years 1 have asked each Union to take up the work of this department, and many Unions have done splendid work, spreading the literature far and wide. This year 1 appeal to each member of the W.C.T.L., cannot you, dear friend, do your little part in this great work? Choose a friend who uses alcohol a> a medicine for her own aliments, or the ailments of her children. Send her “Alcohol and Nursing Mothers,” “Alcohol Injures Children,” and “Can Health be Bought in a Store?” Do you know some young man who fakes a social glass rather often ? Send him “Alcohol the Youi\g Man’s Greatest Kncmy,” “A 1 cohol flinders Business Success,” and “Alcohol Shortens 1 ife : Life Insurance Companies say so.” To the man who drinks for hi> “stomach’s sake,” send “Do Alcoholic Liquors Aid Digestion?” To the woman who uses alcohol for a weak heart, “Do Weak Hearts Need Alcohol?” For those who fly to alcohol for every ailment, there is the “Medical Temperance Quiz.” And w here could we get a finer booklet for general use than “Safe Remedies in Illness”? Have we all studied this? And do we give a copy to new members? Or send special leaflets to nurses? Or distribute suitable leaflets in the Sunday Schools on Temperance Sunday? Friends, if we are to fight this great evil successfully, we must spread, far and wide, the knowledge that alcohol is not needed in illness. Just before the last elections, an elderly lady said to me, “1 have always voted for No-License, but am in doubt what to do with regard to voting for Dominion Prohibition; 1 am so afraid that if Prohibition is carried it mav cau«e such a

rise in the price of alcohol that poor people will find it almost impossible to obtain it in sickness.” Look over the li-t of leaflets and select what may be most needed among your acquaintances. By this plan even the aged and the invalid can do something to help m the struggle against alcoholism, and there is joy in feeling we can have a part in the fight. 1 venture the prediction that this leaflet plan, to make ' very member a worker, will bring great joy and satisfaction to the hearts of all who undertake it wisely and prayerfully.— Yours in the work for “God Home, and Humanity,” CLARA M. NEAL, New Zealand Superintendent. List of Medical Temperance literature : BOOKLETS. Per Doz. Safe Remedies in Illness «Sd Does Alcohol Sustain Life? ... Sd LEAFLETS. Do Alcoholic Liquor-. Aid Digestion? ... ... ... .. 4d Do Weak Hearts Need Alcohol? .. 4d W hat Can Nurses do for Temperance ? 4d Trained Nurses and Alcohol ... 4d Can Health be Bought in a Drug Store? ... ... ... 4<l Why Headache Remedies are Dangerous 4d How to Avoid Constipation ... 4d Colds, Their Cause and Cure ... 4d Medical Temperance Quiz ... 4d Medical Men and the Alcohol Question ... ... ... 4d Beer Drinking Injures Health ... 4<l Alcohol in the Treatment of • Tuberculosis 4d Special Medical Directions to Women 4d Medical Opinions of Alcohol as a Remedy in Disease ... ... 4d Alcohol Shortens Life: Insurance Companies say so ... ... 3d Why the Alcohol in Patent Medicines is Dangerous 3d West Virginia State Medical Society Against Alcohol ... 4d The Appeal of th<‘ Insane to the Nursing Profession ... ... 4d Alcohol Drinking Hinders Busines Success ... ... ... 4d Alcohol the Young Man’s Greatest Enemy ... ... ... 4d A New York Physician’s Arraignment of Alcohol ... ... 4d Alcohol and Nursing Mothers ... 4d Alcohol Injures Children ... ... 4(1 Alcoholic Degeneracy 4(1 Why a Lord Mayor of London is a Total Abstainer 2d Doctor Harvey W . W iley on Coca Cola and Drugs 2d

A sample package, containing one copy of all the leaflets and booklets given above, will be sent to any address, price iod, post free; also a package, specially selected to send to doctors, price 4d, post free. Address: Mrs C- M. Neal, “Trocadero,” Pahiatua.