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HOW MUCH LIQ! IS USf Fewer Whiskey Prescrip Physicians?Son Of a Few "Just a little on account of sick/ ness." That used to be an old excuse for keeping the jug around the house. Now it is becoming an excuse for getting whiskey by the pint or quart from the drug stores. The question has been raised if prescribing liquor is not, in some cases, getting it "unJ *? 1 ? ? " r\f o t 1o3ct 3 TlriV UtU iai^c picicuoc, ui + u. y... ilege that is abused. This tendency, it has been noticed, has been on the increase within recent years. In order to get at the facts in the case, to learn definitely if the general attitude of the medical profession is to increase or decrease the use of alcoholic liquors in treating disease, and to establish a rough standard, rule or guide showing the aver1 age quantity of alcoholic liquor now used by the best authorities on medicine, the secretary of the State board of health wrote to a number of the best hospitals in the country, and to all the physicians in the State who I have been officers in the State Medical Society during the last five years, and ashed them to give definite facts as to the number of patients they treated in a year, together with the total amount of liquor prescribed. A great many answers were receivA/i TfnTYi thoQP it was found that, for OU? X' X V/UJ. VUVWV ?v ?. _ - ? r (a total of 186,052 patients treated during one year a total of 601 gallons of whiskey and brandy were prescribed. This, reduced down, proved to be an average of about three-fourths of a tablespoonful per v ; patient during the entire year. This result, from such a large number of cases from the practice of reputable physicians and hospitals, can only be construed as being an index as to what constitutes good practice in regard to the use of liquor as medicine. From the replies received to the letters of inquiry, two important points were brought out: r. c (1) A great many of the doctors stated that they were using much less liquor now than they did from five to 10 or 15 years ago. and that, too, patients are more successfully treated than when more liquor was pre-j scribed. (2) It could not but be noted that, I in general, doctors who had received their degrees in medicine within the last 10 years were prescribing a great j V deal less liquor than doctors who graduated prior to that time. A great many of the very best doctors of the younger set prescribe no liquor whatsoever. From these two points it appears i that unmistakably the tendency in the best medical practice of the present day is to decrease rather than increase the quantity of liquor pre- ! scribed. One of the most striking features of the whole matter is that while the BEST medical practice both in e the State and in large hospitals outside the State shows a strong ten-i deney to decrease the amount of liquor prescribed, yet the actual! amount of liquor prescribed by thej profession as a whole is believed to! . be largely increased during recent j years, and it will be noted that this j increase is coincident with the more! \ rigid enforcement of our prohibition ' Hr \ laws. ?. >' * The replies to the questions sub-. mitted were so interesting that we ; cannot refrain from quoting the gist of a few*. Space forbids longer quo-1 tations, but these are typical: "I find it advisable to prescribe whiskey to perhaps less than 10 patients a year."?W. L. Dunn, M. D., j A6heville. ; "During the year I have prescnb\ ed no whiskey or brandy at all."? James J. Philips, M. D.. Tarboro. "With all of our practice, including the hospital and our private work, we do not advise an amount i exceeding one gallon a year."?J. T. j Burrus, M. D.. High Point. "The amount used in the institution for the vear has been an aver, age of 20 1-3 ounces per patient. This rather high average is due to the quantity required by certain chronic patients, and will be reduced this year."?Albert Anderson, M. D., suv perintendent State Hospital for the Insane, Raleigh. ; V , \ "I do not use more than one drop of spirits to the patient."?F. R. Harris, M. D., Henderson. "I am sure that on my hospital services only two or three patients a year ever get alcohol in any form by my order."?H. A. Rovster, M. D., Raleigh. "I have prescribed XO whiskey or spirits of any sort during the last year, or previous one."?Wm. M. Jones, M. D.. Greensboro. "I don't prescribe whiskey at all." ?John W. Irwin, M. D., Charlotte. "During the last five years of my active practive I am satisfied I did not prescribe over a pint a year, and UOR D AS MEDICINE? itions Are Given By Best \e of the Replies r Doctors. ; if I were practicing now I would not I prescribe any at all."?J. T. J. Battle. M. D., Greensboro. 'I have never prescribed whiskey at any time; have advised patients to tol-o voru email nuantitioe nt* liratlHv ? ti; ouiati \]uuuuuv.o vi. uiUiiu: , and that was in very few instances. I Since I gave up general practice I | have not had any chance or occasion | for the use of much."?M. M. Saliba, | M. D., Wilson, j j NsyJB j "I prescribe for 3,600 patients per | year, including 25 'drunks.' I preI scribe one ounce of spirits for each ' of these. Otherwise I never write a ' prescription for spirits."?E. T. Dickinson, M. D., Wilson. "I prescribe eight quarts of whiskey per year?this would be 20 drops for each patient."?Frank M. Russell, M. D., Wilmington. "I do not prescribe whiskey. | However, I recognize it as a valuable | remedy."?Dr. D. A. Dees, Bayboro. "I do not prescribe it in any ! shape."?J. E. Koonce, M. D., Wil| mington. "I don't suppose I have prescribed ! on an average one-half gallon of i whiskey per year, and I suppose I I see at least as many patients as any j physician in the city. I believe the : necessity for prescribing whiskey is ! very seldom indeed. In fact, I be! lieve there are other remedies that would be equally as good, if not bet! ter, in those cases in which it was : prescribed."?A. J. Crowell, M. D., j Charlotte. These few letters taken at random : show unmistakably the present trend i of medical science in regara lu uie I i use of liquor in sickness. I THE REMEDY SUGGESTED. In view of the facts in the case.| it is plain that some sort of remedy is needed for the present drug store liquor trade. It must be admitted that very few, if any, physicians voluntarily prescribe much of the liquor j that is now bought at drug stores. Much pressure is brought to ! bear upon them by a certain class of patients, whereas if the doctors had some good, concrete argument to fallback on which would appeal to this | class of people, they could, without j causing offense, avoid doing what their consciences decree is wrong. In other words, we believe that a remedy for such conditions would be more welcome to doctors than to . any one else. For a simple, direct means of effecting this end, it might be well to add a clause to our search and seizure law requiring that druggists' prescription files be audited, say quarterly, and the average quantity of alcoholic liquors prescribed per patient be made part of a public report to the mayor of the town. When once the public knows that in the best medical practice, less than a tablespoonful of liquor per patient treated is given annually, then the week-kneed doctor will have something to fall back on.?Warren H. Booker in Charlotte Observer. Not a Suppliant. Mrs. Larkin had a very good housemaid who had been with her some years, and one day the girl told her mistress that she would have to leave, as she was going to be married. "Indeed!" said Mrs. Larkin, "and what is your future husband, Mary?" "Please, ma'am," was the reply, "he's an asker." "A what?" queried the mistress. "An asker," repeated Mary. "I don't understand." said Mrs. Larkin, "what does he do?" "Well, ma'am," explained the girl, "he goes about the streets, and if he -- 1 2.1^ ^ 4. sees any one coming aioug mat iuuhs | kind, he?well, he just stops them and asks them to give him a trifle.and he makes quite a comfortable living, ma'am, in that way." "But, Mary," replied the mistress, in astonishment, "do you mean he is a beggar?" "Well, ma'am," said Mary, "some ! people do call it that: but we call it asker.' "?National Monthly. Four Per Cent. Apropos of large earnings, the i manager of a brokerage house told the following story about an old GerI man who kept a small retail store: A credit man was trying to get a| | line on the old merchant, and asked I what he made on his sales. "Oh, T guess about 4^per cent,": was the reply. '' '' m Q n I "Wnyy reyutru mc u i. "you could hardly get along on profits of 4 per cent. Just what do you i mean by that?" "Veil," said the German, "I gall it 4 ber cent ven I sell someding for four times vat I bay for it. Ain'dt i it?"?Wall Street Journal. NORMAL LIFE 100 YEARS. Sir James Crichton-Browne Says Best Work is J)one After Forty. "Don't stop work at 70; do more of it," remarked Sir Gilbert Parker a few days ago. and Sir James Crichton-Browne, an acknowledged authority on longevity, agrees with Sir Gilbert thoroughly. "If you want a feeble and misera Die oia age. give up worMug, sam Sir James, who, although born as long ago as 1 S4 0, is one of the busiest men in the kingdom to-day. "The most vigorous period of human life in its entirety is obviously between J 25 and 70 years of age," he>added. "but to say that men above the latI ter age are comparatively useless is to fly in the face of the biographical dictionary. .Much of the best work of the world has been done by men over 40, and we should by no means stand where we are but be back in the twilight ages if bereft of what these men accomplished. "Musical expression, like speech, reaches its acme in late middle lile. But higher in the cerebral hierarchy than speech or music centers are others concerned in the manifestation of purely intellectual powers, such as reason and judgment, which come to perfection late, and may long preserve their integrity. A preponderance of the work involving calm and powerful reason is done by men from 55 to 70 years of age. Our judicial system in this country ha6 been built up mainly by judges from 55 to 85 years of age, and in almost all countries the most momentous affairs of State have been reserved for the decision of men at this time of life. "And even memory, so often treacherous in old age, may be preserved intact. Doctor Dollinger, when 70 years and cursed by insomnia, learned by heart three books and the 'Odyssey' .in order that he might be able to repeat them to himself in the silent watches of the night. Henry Dandolo, Gibbon tells us, was elected Doge of Venice when 84, and lived till 97, shining in nis last years as one of the most illustrious men of his time. "The way to make old age peevish and repulsive is to rob it of the hopes by which it is sustained and tranquillized. Depend on it, the best antiseptic against senile decay is an active interest in human affairs, and those keep young longest who love most. It is a cogent argument against celibacy and the limitation of families that they deprive old age of those vernal influences in which parents renew their youth. l"We are justified in holding that, given favorable conditions and barring accidents, 100 years is the normal duration of man's life, the goal which, if we guide Pur footsteps aright, an ever increasing number of men and women should arrive." Sir James added that very often old age was made feeble and decrepit because of the maladies of early life. All these maladies leave their footprints behind them, and in aged men were often found the tracks of measles or the marks of whooping cough. A Precocious Child. Two gentlemen were discussing the subject of childhood. One bf them remarked: "It has always seemed strange to me that children should be so long in learning to talk. For months they are practically helpless, because they cannot express their feelings." "I am not so sure of that," replied the other. "I knew a child that talked when only two weeks old." "How was that?" asked his friend, somewhat astonished. "Well, the two weeks' old child of a friend of mine was sick. A physician was called in. He made an ex amination, and turning to me Daue asked: " 'My dear, can I do anything for you?" and the child answered?absolutely nothing."?Boston Herald. Fgg; Found Under Ground Nine Feet Below Surface. \ One of the workmen employed on Dr. \V. G. Mayes' new building, corner of Main and Xance streets, while working 011 the foundation Friday, found a hen egg nine or ten feet below the surface, just outside the foundation at the street corner. The shell was sound and the egg was apparently as fresh as if laid the day before. How long it had lain there is not known, but it must have been at least thirty years, for the old brick buildings that was torn down to make room for the new- one was built that long ago. and the old 1 n?ft/>Q/Jinor tViot nnp W'OOnen UUHUUlg yio-cuiuf, uiui ? was there long before the war of the 60s. and was built over a gully several feet deep that used to be in that part of town. All these years the egg had been protected from the atmosphere, and therefore kept sound.?Newberry Observer. We still have a few boxes of sample box papers left. They are selling for less than wholesale cost. Herald Book Store. BODY OFFERED TO COLLEGE. i Man Who Took Life at Andersor Wanted to Aid Science. Anderson, April 17.?"I have no relatives and my wish is that you send my body to the medical college at Atlanta," were the words crudely written in the stationery of a local hotel which was found among the nnrconol offoptc nf o m o n n* V?o 1 oH ^v_ i v.o vy4. u liiuxi r* iiv_/ iv/vyivv^u to be between 50 and 60 years of age who committed suicide in a room at a hotel here during last night. Xc name was signed to the note, but several pay envelopes issued by the American Spinning Company and the Poe .Manufacturing Company, Greenville. and a pass book from the Union Savings Bank, of Augusta, bore the name of A. S. Waldon. The coroner secured several statements, one from a physician, who stated that the man came to his death from an overdose of laudanum, and he decided that a formal inquest was not necessary. The college in Atlanta was notified, but if the body is not wanted, it will be buried in Potter's field tomorrow. Waldon came to the hotel Wednesday night and secured Room 51. He paid in advance for the lodging and did not register. Last night at 7 o'clock he called at the hotel and asked for the same room again, paying in advance. The clerk did not require him to register, as several persons were waiting at the desk. The clerk says that the man drew his coat close across his breast and was shivering, giving the appearance of being cold. The man retired to his room, and was not seen until the servants went there at 3.30 o'clock this afternoon to clean it up. The door was locked. A boy was pushed through the transom and in a half clad condition the man was lying dead across the bed.' The doctors said he had been dead several hours. He had several 1 capsule boxes and two empty onehalf ounce boftles of laudanum, all of which were from a well known druggist in Greenville. 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