MEDICINAL USES OF ALCOHOL
The routine use of alcohol in illness is a thing of the past. Whereas many years ago, hospital statistics showed a large item of expenditure in the use of alcoholic drinks for hospital patients, at the present time this item is a negligible amount and in very many hospitals is practically nil. Colonel C. J. Bond, F.R.C.S. and Dr. J. D. Rolleston, in the journals of the Society for the Study of 'nebriety, have called attention to the statistical evidence of hospitals, which showed that alcohol is compartively rarely used at the present clay. Alcohol should be regarded in illness as a drug and prescribed as such. It has a definite effect on the nervous system, sometimes of a sedative nature.
In preserving alcohol in illness, the danger of addiction must always be borne in mind, and this danger will be greater in those possessing an unstable nervous system, and particularly in those with ? family history of “Alcoholism." Sir Wilfred H. Wilcox, K.C.I.E, CB, C.M.G, M.D, F R CP.
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White Ribbon, Volume 26, Issue 12, 1 May 1955, Page 5
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173MEDICINAL USES OF ALCOHOL White Ribbon, Volume 26, Issue 12, 1 May 1955, Page 5
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