Some conditions of adolescence in which Fellows' hypophosphites is beneficial / [James I. Fellowes].

  • Fellows, James I.
Date:
1889
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Credit: Some conditions of adolescence in which Fellows' hypophosphites is beneficial / [James I. Fellowes]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and work. In many phases of health, and in certain morbid conditions, alcohol in one shape or other is indicated, and it is foolish and detrimental to the patient to withhold it. To teach the young that wine is as the “ spur in the side of the horse,” calling out latent rather than creating new force, and that great physical and mental fatigue may be undergone without its help, is the proper course to adopt. They should be taught that alcoholic stimulation does not mean nutritive support, and that alcohol is only in a sense a food. In short, both by example and precept, the youth of both sexes should learn that it is the abuse rather than the use of alcohol that works harm and does permanent mischief, and that by avoiding the “ hot and rebellious liquors ” in the spring-time of life they will be all the more likely to see the invigorated winter of old age “ frosty but kindly.” PART II. Diseases of Adolescence.—Taking thus a general view of the period of adolescence, it appears plain that the metabolic processes of tissue-metamorphosis