ALCOHOL NOT A STIMULANT, SAYS DR. WILLIAM J. MAYO.
Cora Frances Stoddard, Superintendent of the Scientific Temperance Federation, referred the claim of certain brewery interests that alcohol is a stimulant to the Mayo brothers, ot Rochester, Minnesota, and received the following reply from Dr. William J Mayo: “Scientific research has shown thaf alcohol Is a narcotic, not a stimulant. Alcohol has little \alue as a medicinal agent and it certainly' carries distinct dangers to those who make use of it us a drink. I have never found it necessary to use alcohol for medicine except in cases of surgical patients who have iong been accustomed to its use. For such patients I have not found it wise to change their' habits abruptly, immediately before surgical operation." Dr. Mayo enclosed with his letter : copy of some remarks of his reprinted from the Proceedings of the Staff Meet ings of the Mayo Clinic (January 10. 1931) in which he said: “The majority of doc-tors and pharmacologists agree that alcohol is not a stimulant but a narcotic, that is, a drug with little use in the practice of medicine.’’
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White Ribbon, Volume 41, Issue 482, 18 November 1935, Page 10
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