Alcohol, Hygiene, and Legislation
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ISBN13: 9780217169677
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III THE PEACE AND WAK FOOTING OF ALCOHOL HPHE physiological and pathological ef- fects of alcohol have probably been more thoroughly investigated, contended over, and disagreed about during the last quarter of a century than almost any other subject. Physiologists and chemists have studied the action of alcohol upon normal organs; pathologists and clinicians have investigated its morbid and therapeutic effects; and its moral and economical significance have been subjects of contention that rivals the religious and metaphysical discussions of the Middle Ages. Yet the net results of this active fermentation?that is, the actual facts about which all the investigators agree absolutely?may be summed up in the simple statement that excessive quantities of alcohol are harmful. A similar statement may be made about at least a hundred other substances. Nevertheless, a certain number of positive discoveries have been made, and a somewhat larger number of fallacious pathological and therapeutic bubbles have been definitely pricked. Reprinted from the Medical Record of August 7th, 1915. Events in Europe during the last few months have added material for digestion. Thus the edicts of certain governments against the sale and manufacture of distilled liquors emphasize the belief among physicians that the effects of concentrated beverages are especially harmful. But perhaps the most disconcerting, as well as one of the most important events in recent years, in its bearing on the problem was the discovery that paresis is caused by syphilis, not by alcohol, as widely believed heretofore. This discovery, although intrinsically important, is even more so in its implication. This implication is, obviously, that there may be other pathological conditions where the verdict ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217169677 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217169678 |
| Weight | 0.24 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.15 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 64 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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