| Show dangers of drink A QUESTION ABOUT winch WHICH DOCTORS DO not yot OT DISAGREE 1 ill in view pf af the alarms alarming ug p prevalence rev and ill effects of intemperance with which none areso abeso are so familiar as members of the medical profession fes sion and which have called forth from eminent english physicians ph ysl the voice of warning to the people of great britain concerning the use of alcoholic beverages we ve the undersigned undersigner under signed members of the medical profession of new york and vicinity unite in the declaration that we believe alcohol should be classed with other powerful drugs that when prescribed medicinally medici nilly it should be with conscientious caution and a sense of grave responsibility lity 2 we are of the opinion that the use of alcoholic liquors as a beverage belverage is productive of a large amount of physical disease that it entails diseased appetites appetito e 8 u upon poll offspring 3 and that it is the cause of a large percentage of the crime and pauperism a of our cities and counti 3 we would welcome any judicious U and effective legisla legislation tio state and national which should seek to confine the traffic in alcohol to the legitimate purposes of medical and other sciences art and mechanism edward delafield M D president college of physicians and surgeons and of roosevelt hospital willard parker M D ex dent academy of medicine A clark dark M college of physicians and surgeons and beniot physician bellevue hospital james anderson hnderson derson af M D ex dent academy of medicine and president physicians mutual aid association E R e M D ex dent academy of medicine X Y C B ar agnew M dex president medical society of the tile state of N Y stephen smith M D surgeon Bellev bellevue hospital commissioner i of health and president american health association alfred C post 31 D dj j i professor of surgery in university medical college and ex president N Y academy of medicine elisha harris M D 1 secretary american public health association late sanitary superintendent metropolitan board of health erasmus D hudson bludson nr D physician arid d surgeon burgeon E D hudson jr TM 11 D professor of theory and practice of Are medicine dichie diehle womans comans medical college or botn oon Y infirmary ellsworth eliot ar M D president of the new now york county medical society atephen rogers Il NL D president oatlie medico legai legal society of N Y andrew 11 smith M D visiting physician to st lukes hospital etc J E K janvrin ir D ferganus Fer ranus morse D brooklyn E T IZ ichardson aa M D brooklyn william wliilam H hall wal D walter D physic ian lan lanto to charity I 1 hospital lecturer university medical college J R learning M D physician to st lukes hospital president university alumni association eule Enle emeritus ritus professor of medicine etc james 0 pond rond IT D treasurer N Y academy of medicine theodore L mason alason M B R consulting surgeon kings rings county inebriate home consulting surgeon long island ipland college hospital asp etc and president Col coi collegiate collegial lezia legia department and others national temperance advocate |
