ALCOHOL AND PNEUMONIA.
At the Edinburgh meeting of the British Medical Association in July, 1927, Prof. John Hay, of Liverpool University, led a discussion on pneumonia. Dr. Weeks gives the following facts:— “Pneumonia patients in a lurge Union Infirmary were divided in tw’o sections. In one, no alcohol was used. There were 47 patients; 14 died —a mortality of 29.5 per cent. In another, where alcohol was used, there were 103 patients; 47 died a mortality of 45.5 per cent. The average age in each group was 3.') years. *1 do not wish,’ said Professor Hay, ‘to stress unduly the actual figures, but I consider that the administration or withholding of alcohol was at any rate the dominant factor. It is not only futile, but detrimental, when administered in repeated doses, to help a failing heart.’ Subsequent speakers spoke for or against alcohol, hut undoubtedly the ‘feeling’ of the meeting was against rather than for the use of alcohol.’’
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White Ribbon, Volume 37, Issue 440, 18 March 1932, Page 6
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