Alcohol and the human body : an introduction to the study of the subject, and a contribution to national health / by Sir Victor Horsley and Mary D. Sturge, with a chapter by Arthur Newsholme.

  • Horsley, Victor, Sir, 1857-1916.
Date:
1911
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Credit: Alcohol and the human body : an introduction to the study of the subject, and a contribution to national health / by Sir Victor Horsley and Mary D. Sturge, with a chapter by Arthur Newsholme. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PAG'E Connection between alcohol and disease in childhood—Evidence of Prof. Kassowitz, Sir Thomas Barlow, and Prof. Demme. Effect of alcohol on school work—American investigation. Convulsions in brea.st-fed children. Alcohol a cause of immorality in youth ...... 235 CHAPTER XV The Influence of Parental Alcoholism upon the Race Healthy embryonic and pre-natal life—Paternal influence on offspring— Maternal influence—Effect of parental alcoholism on the nervous systems of children—Parental alcoholism one of the causes of idiocy, epilepsy, insanity, feeble-mindedness, hysteria, and other neuroses in subsequent generations—Mental deficiency of school children attributable to inebriety in parents and gr.andparents—New York stati.stics—Direct and indirect effect of alcohol in cau.sing infant mortality—Research by Prof. Bunge as to the connection between deficient power of lactation and the alcoholic habit in previous generation. H ereditary effects of alcohol studied in animals—Researches with hens’ eggs—Influence of heredity on inebriety—Special inheritance of nervous instability , . . . . . . . .243 CHAPTER XVI (By Dr. Arthur Newshol.me) The Influence of the Drinking of Alcoholic Beverage.s ON the N.ational Health Standard of life influenced by national e.xpenditure on alcohol—E.stima- tion of effect of this expenditure on wage-earning classes—Loss of life due to alcohol—Statistical under-statement of number of deaths due to alcohol—Reasons for this—Comparative mortality for various trades—Prevalence of consumption and cancer in persons employed in certain occupations—Comparative death-rate of abstainers and non-abstainers—Incidence of sickness amongst abstainers and non- abstainers .......... 269 glossary .279 INDEX 285