The General Practitioner As a Specialist

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: hours as preferred. After a little experience in treating these cases with their irritable stomachs, nausea and vomiting, the value of this food will become more apparent, and to save time, a supply should be within reach when the treatment is begun. Beef tea, prepared either from prime lean beef or a good...
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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: hours as preferred. After a little experience in treating these cases with their irritable stomachs, nausea and vomiting, the value of this food will become more apparent, and to save time, a supply should be within reach when the treatment is begun. Beef tea, prepared either from prime lean beef or a good extract of same, is a grateful and strengthening food for these patients. Its use need not be restricted. Food should be taken whenever its need is felt. INEBRIETY. CHRONIC ALCOHOLISM. A lengthy discussion as to whether the excessive use of alcoholic stimulants is a disease or a habit, is at this time unnecessary, as the medical profession is now practically a unit in conceding that while the occasional indulgence in the use of alcoholic liquors as a beverage may properly be termed a habit, it speedily becomes, through unwise indulgence, so pronounced, as to constitute actual disease, manifested by certain morbid phenomena. To the laity these phenomena are not always apparent and their opinions are formed by the impressions conveyed to their minds by the occasional or frequent sight of an intoxicated person, in whom they see personified all that is wicked and immoral, wholly ignorant of the pathological changes that have taken place in that delicate structure, the nervous system of the inebriate. Again, the temperance advocate and total abstainer are strong in their declarations that drunkenness is a mean, low and disgraceful habit, from which any ordinary person can free himself by the exercise of his will power alone, while their deductions are offset by those of the victim himself, who maintains that he is afflicted with a highborn, aristocratic disease, of uncertain nervous origin, for the temporary relief of which alcoholic beverages have proved themselves a sov...