The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, April 23, 1914, Page 6, Image 6
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
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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. He had little
money in his pocket and his
clothes and general make-up indicate
that he had#lived a hard life, was
extremely poor, and that probably he
had been a dope fiend for some time
Mileage Allowances Cut Out.
Washington, April 17.?The house
struck the tiqie-honored "mileage
allowances" for congressmen out ol
the legislative appropriation bill today
and provided for actual expenses
of members to and from wasnington
to attend congress. The senate
has yet to agree to the proposal.
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The regular spring teachers' examination
will be held at the court
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the 1st, 1914, beginning at 9 a. m.
The examination will cover English
Grammar, Geography, Physiology
and Hygiene, Arithmetic, United
States History, Civics and Current
Events, Pedagogy, Agriculture and
Algebra.
R. W. D. ROWELL,
County Supt. of Education.
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