ALCOHOL AND HEALTH.
1. Is there any noticeable difference in health between the abstainer and the drinker?
Alcohol, habitually used, can of itself produce disease from which the abstainer remains exempt.
2. Does drinking affect the chances of recovery from illness?
The drinker has a worse chance of recovery from a fever or an injury than an abstainer.
3. Does the presence of alcohol in the blood from time to time decrease the effect of remedies the doctor may use in illness?
In the crisis of disease ,the alcoliolist gets less benefit from stimulants than the abstainer.
These facts are given upon the authority of Professor Simpson, of Edinburgh University and in an address to medical students he said, “You will not be long in practice before you prove these facts.”
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White Ribbon, Volume 43, Issue 7, 18 August 1942, Page 5
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