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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 36

Medical Declaration

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Medical Declaration.

1.In view of the alarming prevalence and ill effects of intemperance, with which none are so familiar as members of the medical profession, and which have called forth from eminent English physicians the voice of warning to the people of Great Britain concerning the use of alcoholic beverages, we, the undersigned, 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, it should be with conscientious caution, and a sense of grave responsibility.
2."We are of opinion that the use of alcoholic liquor as a beverage is productive of a large amount of physical disease; that it entails diseased appetites upon offspring; and that it is the cause of a large percentage of the crime and pauperism of our cities and country.
3.We would welcome any judicious and effective legislation—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 Pelafield, M.D., President College of Physicians and Surgeons, and of Roosevelt Hospital.
  • Willard Parker. M.D., Ex-President Academy of Medicine.
  • A. Clark, M.D., Professor College of Physicians and Su geons, and Senior Physician Bellevue Hospital.
  • James Anderson, M.D., No. 30 University Place, Ex President Academy of Medicine, and President Physicians' Mutual Aid Association.
  • E. R. Peaslee, M.D., Ex-President Academy of Medicine (N. Y.)
  • C. R. Agnew, M.D., Ex-President Medical Society of the State of New York.
  • Stephen Smith, M.D., Surgeon Bellevue Hospital, Commissioner of Health, and President American Health Association.
  • Alfred C. Post, M.D., LL.D., Professor of Surgrery in University Medical College, and Ex-President N. Y. Academy of Medicine.
  • E. D. Hudson. Jr., M.D., Professor of Theory and Practice of Medicine, Woman's Medical College of N. Y. Inflrmary.
  • Erasmus D. Hudson, M.D., Physician and Surgeon.
  • Elisha Harris, M.D., Secretary American Public Health Association, late Sanitary Superintendent Metropolitan Board of Health, and Corresponding Secretary Prison Association of New York.
  • Ellsworth Eliot, M.D., President of the New York County Medical Society.
  • Stephen Rogers, M.D., President of the Medico-Legal Society of New York.
  • Andrew h. Smith, M.D., Visiting Physician to St. Luke's Hospital, etc.
  • J. E. Janvrin, M.D.
  • Verranus Morse, M.D., Brooklyn.
  • E. T. Richardson, M.D., Brooklyn.
  • William H. Hall, M.D.
  • Walter R. Gillette, M.D., Physician to Charity Hospital. Lecturer University Medical College.
  • J. R. Leaming, M.D., Physician to St. Luke's Hospital, President University Alumni Association. Emeritus Professor of Medicine, etc.page 14
  • James O. Fond, M.D., Treasurer N. Y. Academy of Medicine.
  • Theodore L. Mason, M.D., Consulting Surgeon Kings Co. In-ebriates' Home. Consulting Surgeon Long Island College Hospital, etc., and President Collegiate Department.
  • G. J. Fisher, M.D., Late Vice-president New York State Medical Society, late President Westchester County Medical Society,
  • George W. Hall, M.D., Brooklyn. John A. Jenkins, M.D., Brooklyn.
  • J. L. Little, M.D., Lecturer College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York; burgeon to St. Luke's Hospital.
  • W. F. Sanford, M.D., Brooklyn.
  • S. Fleet Spier, M.D., Surgeon Brooklyn City Hospital, Surgeon Brooklyn Eye and Ear Infirmary, etc.
  • John M. Cuyler, M.D., Surgeon United States Army, Medical Director Department of the East, New York.
  • Martyn Paine, M.D., LL.D., Emeritus Professor University Medical College.
  • Augustus G. Elliot, M.D., Ex-Physician Beilevue Hospital, and New York Institute for Deaf and Dumb.
  • Robert Watts, M.D., Visiting Physician Charity Hospital, and to the Roosevelt Hospital.
  • Henry A. Stiles, M.D., Sanitary Inspector Board of Health.
  • A. D. Rockwell, M.D., Electro-Therapeutist New York State Woman's Hospital.
  • A. B. De Luna, M.D., Visiting Physician Northwestern Dispensary, New York.
  • Robert Taylor, M.D., Attending Physician for Diseases of the Throat and Lungs, Northwestern Dispensary, 42d Street and Ninth Avenue. New York.
  • M. A. Wilson, M.D., Attending Physician New York Dispensary. Northwestern Dispensary, Member of the County Medical Society, and Medical Library and Journal Association, 103 West 29th Street.
  • Paluel de Harmon, M D., Physician to the Academy of Mount St. Vincent.
  • William B. Eager, M.D., Physician to Charity Hospital.
  • Frank H. Hamilton, M.D., LL.D., Surgeon Bellevue Hospital, and St. Francis's Hospital; Professor of Practice of Surgery in Bellevue Hospital Medical College.
  • F. L. Harris, M.D., No. 43 East 30th Street, Late Deputy Health Officer of the Port of New York.
  • Eben Storer, M.D., No. 47 East 30th Street.
  • E. S. Dunster, M.D., Professor of Obstetrics in the Long Island College Hospital, and the Medical Department of Dartmouth College: Resident Physician Infants' Hospital, Randall's Island.
  • Mrs. Mary C. Brown, M.D., Brooklyn.
  • Walter Pardee, M.D., No. 248 West 34th Street.
  • Edward Bayard, M.D., No. 8 West 40th Street,
  • Lewis Hallock, M.D. A. N. Bell, M.D., Editor of The Sanitarian.
  • R. C. Moffat, M.D., Brooklyn.
  • Sarah M. Ellis, M.D., Late Professor of Anatomy New York Medical College for Women.
  • Edwin West, M.D., No. 42 West Washington Place.
  • William J. Bauer, M.D., No. 13 East 33d Street.
  • Daniel H. Hastings, M.D., No. 214 West 28th Street.
  • S. T. Birdsall, M.D.
  • A. Houghton Birdsall, M.D.
  • Ernst T. Hoffman, M.D.
  • John Ellis, M.D., Author of the "Avoidable Causes of Disease."
  • Hans Powell, M.D., Surgeon-General Grand Army of the Republic.
  • H. S. Giebert, M.D., Brooklyn.
  • Elizabeth S. Adams, M.D., No. 156 West 23d Street, Physician New York Medical College for Women.
  • George Newby, M.D., No. 160 West 16th Street.
  • S. Swan, M.D., No. 13 West 38th Street.
  • E. B. Belden, M.D., Alexander Hutciiins, M.D., No. 796 De Kalb Avenue, Brooklyn.
  • Edwin T. Ward, M.D.
  • J. W. G. Clements, M.D.page 15
  • Warren Freeman, M.D., No. 39 West 36th Street.
  • William Detmold, M.D.
  • Nathan Bozeman, M.D.
  • Edmund Fowler, M.D.
  • John Purcell, M.D., No. 51 Henry Street.
  • E. D. Morgan, Jr., M.D., Attending Physician Brick Church Chapel Dispensary, Physician New York Post-Office.
  • J. A. Williams, No. 250 West 34th Street.
  • J. B. Elliott, M.D., No. 493 Clinton Ave., Brooklyn.
  • B. F. Underwood, M.D., Treasurer Kings County Homœopathic Medical Society.
  • Samuel S. Guy, M.D., Ex-President New York State Homoeopathic Medical Society, Ex-President American Institute of Homœopathy, etc.
  • J. W. Dowling, M.D., No. 568 Fifth Avenue, Registrar and Professor of Practice New York Homœopathic Medical College.
  • Homer J. Ostrom, M.D., No. 568 Fifth Avenue.
  • Henry Minton, M.P., Ex-President Homoeopathic Medical Society Kings County.
  • C. B. McQuesten. M.D. Charles E. Blumenthal, M.D., LL.D., Chairman Medical Board of Hahnemann Hospital.
  • M. Freligh, Author of "Practice of Medicine and Materia Medica."
  • Edwin G. Freligh, M.D., Toxicological and Analytical Chemist.
  • S. P. Burdick, M.D., Professor of Obstetrics, Homoeopathic Medical College, New York.
  • D. A. Gorhu, M.D., Brooklyn.
  • H. P. Patrisdge, M.D.
  • Fred. Elliot, M.D.
  • Jared G. Baldwin, M.D., No. 8 East 41 st Street.
  • W. H. Scott, M.D., No. 8 East 41st Street.
  • F. F. Allen, M.D.
  • Frank Bond, A.B., M.D., No. 27 Schermerhorn Street, Brooklyn.
  • Albert E. Sumner, M.D.. Medical Director Brooklyn Homœopathic Hospital
  • W. M. Pratt, M.D. D. Simmons, M.D.
  • May H. Everett, M.D.
  • Jennie Ensign, M.D.
  • B. F. Joslin, M.D.
  • B. F. Bowers, M.D., Ex-President New York County Homœopathic Meoical Society.
  • Wilson Peterson, M.D., Physician.
  • Charles F. Bodgers, M.D.
  • Edward c. Fraye, M.D.
  • Alice Boole Campbell, M.D., No. 114 South 3d Street, Brooklyn.
  • F. Seeger, M.D., Chief Physician Hahnemann Hospital, New York.
  • E. J. Whitney, M.D., Visiting Physician Brooklyn Homoeopathic Hospital.
  • J. A. Bennett, M.D., No. 121 Second Avenue.
  • M. A. Tinker, M.D., No. 572 Henry Street, Brooklyn.
  • W. M. Chamberlin. M.D., Physician to Charity Hospital and Demilt Dispensary.
  • W. Hanford White, M.D., No. 1 West 34th Street.
  • M. W. Palmer, M.D.
  • A. S. Ball, M.D.
  • E. G. Bartlett, M.D.
  • B. L. Cetlinski, M.D., New Haven (Ct.) Homœopathic Dispensary.
  • Albert Wright, M.D., Brooklyn.
  • W. M. L. Fiske, M.D., Brooklyn.
  • Sarah E. Bissell, M.D., No. 104 East 17th Street.
  • C. H. Bhonson, M.D., Brooklyn.
  • Samuel Talmage, Brooklyn.
  • William D. McDonald, M.D., N. Y. Homœopathic Medical College.
  • J. F. Talmage, M.D., Brooklyn.
  • A. J. Palmer, M.D., Brooklyn.
  • Samuel Willets, President Woman's Medical College of the New York Infirmary.
  • Henry C. Houghton, M.D., Prof, of Physiology N. Y. Medical College for Women, Visiting Physician Five Points House of Industry. etc. J. L. Brown, M.D., No. 51 West 36th Street.
  • George I. Bennet. M.D., Brook-Iyn.
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While there is a large array of eminent medical authorities which incline to the belief that the moderate use of fermented liquors is not injurious and is often beneficial to health, yet the concurring sentiment of the medical world is against the use of distilled alcoholic beverages. But the weight of the latest and best medical and scientific opinion largely preponderates in favor of the position that alcohol is simply a poison, and should never be introduced to the human organism, even in the forms of fermentation, except as an antidote for disease, like arsenic, strychnine, prussic acid, or any other powerful, but poisonous agency. I do not propose to enter this field of discussion so far as the light domestic wines and drinks of the people are concerned. It is not essential to the grounds of my argument in support of the proposed amendment. It is only just, however, that the position of the medical profession upon the influence of alcohol in any form of administration upon the human system should be fairly stated, and, if in so doing it shall have appeared that the preponderance of opinion is against the use of fermented as well as distilled liquors, it is no fault of mine. It will strengthen the argument against the stronger and more concentrated poison, if it shall be found or believed that fermented liquors contain enough of the pernicious spirit of wine, which one of Shakespeare's immortal characters stigmatizes as "devil to endanger the physical, mental, and moral organism of those who indulge in their habitual use.