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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    Bigestion, conditions necessary for good, 163 „ gastric, 151 ,, of womeOj 158 „ test-tube experiments on, ICO Digestive system, 143 Diphtheria, 228, 237 Dipsomania, 111 Disease, resistance to, in animals, 227 ,, ,, in man, 222 Diseases—i. Due to alcohol alone, 230 ii. Of which alcohol is frequently either a detennining or con- tributing cause, 231 Disinfectant action, 157 Distemper in dogs, 227 Distiliation, 30 Disuse of alcohol in fever, 7 ,, „ in hospitals, 5 ., ,, in insanity, 9 ,, ,, in London County Asylums, 9 ,, ,, in medicine, 7 „ „ in surgery, 6 Dixon, Professor, 202 Dogs, effect of alcohol on, 103, 227, 261 Drink, money spent on, 270 Drinkers, proue to disease, 228 ,, children of, 248 Drink-traile, influence of, 269 Dropsy, 237 Drugs that induce a craving for repetition, 16 ,, alcohol a narcotic, 4 ,, complexity of action of, 3 ,, action modified by various con- ditions, 14 Drunkard’s liver, 184 Drunkenness, comparable to insanity, 114 „ Irish statistics as to, 113 Dukes, Dr. Clement, 239 Dura mater, 62 Duration of life, 275 Dyspepsia, disguised, 159 Edinburgh Medical Journal, 176 Elderton, Memoir by, 245 Elimination of waste products, 281, etc. ,, of alcohol, 219 Embryonic life, 244 Emotions, effect of alcohol on the, 87 ,, in men, 89 ,, in women, 88 ,, in animals, 95 Enzyme, 25 Epidermis, 135 Epilepsy, alcohol a cause of, 120 „ ' alcoholic parentage a cause of, 253 Ergograph, 102 Erysipelas, 231 Ether, 12, 139 Eugenics, 243 Excretion, delayed, 217 ,, of the skin, 136 Exercise modiGes action of alcohol, 15 Exhilarant effect of alcohol, a delusion, 13 Eyes, fatigue of, 118 „ inffammatory conditions of, 229, 231 Faintness, remedies for, 203 Fatigue, 82 Fatty degeneration ($ce Heart, Liver, etc.) Feeble-minded children, 253 Fer6, Dr., 262 Fermentation, 24 Ferrier, 53 Fever, disuse of alcohol in, 7 ,, enteric, 8 Fick, Professor, 13 Finland, Medical Society of, 100 Fletcher-Beach, Dr., 252 Food, alcohol not a, 169 ,, deQnition of a tnie, 171 Food-stuffs, action of alcohol on, 159 Fraser, Professor, 50 F^, Sir Edwanl, 110 FUrer, Professor, 75 Galton, Dr. Francis, 243 Ganglion cells, eGect of alcohol on, 128 Gin, 24 Glia cells, 129 Glycosuria, 221 Gorell, Lord, 86 Gouge, Mr. H. D., 275 Gout, 221 Granular kidney, 186 Grenfell, General, 99 Growth of children, 236 Guardians of the public health, 4 Habit, quickly fonne<l, 18 ,, effect of, 18 Hsemorrhage, alcohol to be avoiderl in, 83 Haeseler, Count von, 99 Hallucinations, 111 Hare, Dr. C. J., use of alcohol and milk in hospitals, 4 Hare, Dr. F., 122 Harley, Dr. George, 214 Health, national, and alcoholic beverages, 269 Hearing, centre for, 55 Heart, action of alcohol on, 201 ,, dilatation of, 203 „ failure of, 207 ,, muscles of, 205 Heat, alcohol undesirable as a source of, 172 Hellenius, Profe-ssor, xxiii, 91, 102 Helmholtz, 75 Heredity, 242 ,, and the “craving” for drink, 263 ,, a cause of smsceptibility to : alcohol, 264 Heude, 238 i Hill, Dr. Leonard, 200 I Hodge, Professor, 34, 41, 95, 108, 227