Letters upon the effects of alcohol as a preventive to tubercular formations and deposits / by Guilford D. Sanborn.

  • Sanborn, Guilford D.
Date:
1856
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Credit: Letters upon the effects of alcohol as a preventive to tubercular formations and deposits / by Guilford D. Sanborn. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. The following series of Letters was written not only for the perusal of physicians and those interested in the advancement of medical science, but also for invalids laboring under Consump- tion in any of its stages, who have a claim to be apprised of whatever new light the profession or any of its members have obtained in regard to a subject in which they are so deeply interested. The LettersMappeared originally in the New York Daily Times. Many persons, physicians and others, who had not the opportunity of seeing them as they came out, have re- quested their republication; and to gratify their wishes, as well as enable those who may desire to preserve the Letters in a body, I have determined to issue the series in pamphlet form. So far as I am informed, nothing of the kind has ever before been published. A great deaFof misapprehension, in my humble opinion, exists in the community and among the profession, respecting the effects of a reasonable employment of Alcoholic Drinks, their uses in health and disease, and the consequences that follow in some constitutions from their total disuse. It is to correct such misapprehensions that I would place the subject in its scientific aspect fairly before the reading and thinking public. I flatter myself that I have proved in these Letters that Alcoholic Liquors are a perfect sub- stitute for Cod Liver Oil, effecting in reality what the latter was expected to accomplish; but what, we must add, it is too palpably true, it has failed to realise. And also, that in Consump tion, no other internal remedy should be used, except Alcoholic Drinks in some of their forms. These questions must be settled first of all by physicians ; and through their decision, in a good degree, that of the public will finally be determined. I have no doubt that the former under- stand their responsibility in this matter; and that, whatever differences of opinion may now exist, the vexed question will at length be settled by unanimous consent. With the hope that this attempt to set forth the uses of Alcoholic Drinks in a single class of diseases, and more particularly in a single disease, will meet with at least candid reception, it is respectfully dedicated ..to the cause of Medical Science, and of Humanity, by THE AUTHOR. No. G Bond Street, New York, January, 185G.