Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why / What Medical Writers Say by Martha Meir Allen

Author:Martha Meir Allen [Allen, Martha Meir]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Temperance, Alcohol -- Physiological effect
Published: 2008-10-04T04:00:00+00:00

Dr. E. G. Figg, in The Physiological Operation of Alcohol, gives the analyses of the milk of a temperate woman in good health, and of a drinking woman as follows:—

Milk of temperate mother. Milk of drinking mother.

Salts, " " 8.50 Salts, " " 5.50

Casein, " " 3.00 Casein, " " 2.00

Oil, " " 7.50 Oil, " " 6.50

Water, " " 81.00 Water, " " 84.00

—— Alcohol, " " 2.0

——

100.00 100.00

Dr. Edward Smith says in his Practical Dietary:—

“Alcoholics are largely used by many women in the belief that they support the system, and maintain the supply of milk for the infant; but I am convinced that this is a serious error, and is not an infrequent cause of fits and emaciation in the child.”

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