Whisky and Consumption

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Apr 21, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 16.

Whisky and Consumption

In an address before the Mississippi Valley Medical Association, in Louisville, Ky., on October 15, Dr. T. D. Crothers, of Hartford, Conn., editor of the Journal of Inebriety, said:

“The so-called moderate use of spirits which diminishes the vitality and lowers the resisting power of nature is an active cause of consumption and typhoid fever and is accountable for over eighty per cent of all cases of pneumonia. In fact, there is no disease known and no surgical operation performed that is not influenced and made worse by spirits.

“The present efforts of laymen and societies to correct and prevent this evil as a moral one is a sad reflection on the stupidity of the medical profession.”