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CONTENTS
| medication—Reports of treatment in Red Cross Hospital—Use of Alcohol declining in other hospitals | 37 |
| CHAPTER V. Effects of Alcohol Upon the Human Body. | |
| The body composed of cells—Effect of alcohol on cells—Alcohol and Digestion—Effects on the blood—The heart—The liver—The kidneys—Incipient Bright’s disease recovered from by total abstinence—Retards oxidation and elimination of waste matters—Lengthens duration of sickness and increases mortality | 58 |
| CHAPTER VI. Alcohol as Medicine. | |
| Medical use of alcohol a bulwark of the liquor traffic—Alcohol not a Food—Alcohol reduces temperature—Food principle of grains and fruits destroyed by fermentation—Alcohol not a Stimulant—Experiments proving this—Alcohol not a tonic—Professor Atwater on Alcohol as Food | 96 |
| CHAPTER VII. Alcohol in Pharmacy. | |
| Strong tinctures rouse desire for drink in reformed inebriates—Glycerine and acetic acid to preserve drugs—Non-alcohol tinctures in use at London Temperance Hospital—Sale of liquor in drug-stores condemned by pharmacists | 131 |
| CHAPTER VIII. Diseases, and Their Treatment Without Alcohol. | |
| Alcoholic Craving—Anæmia—Apoplexy—Boils and Carbuncle—Catarrh—Hay-Fever—Colds—Colic—Cholera Cholera Infantum—Consumption—Displacements—Debility—Diarrhœa—Dysentery—Dyspepsia—Fainting—Fits—Flatulence—Headache—Hemorrhage—Heart Disease—Heart Failure—Insomnia—La Grippe—Measles—Malaria—Neuralgia—Nausea—Pneumonia—Pain After Food—Snake-bite—Rheumatism—Spasms—Shock—Sudden Illness—Sunstroke—Typhoid Fever—Vomiting | 140 |
| CHAPTER IX. Alcohol and Nursing Mothers. | |
| Beer not good for nursing mothers—Helpful diet—Opinions of medical men—Analysis of milk of a | |
