Citation

Texas medical journal (Austin, Tex.) 1896; 12(5): e255.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1896)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

36955894

PMCID

PMC9621878

Abstract

At the International Pychological Con gress recently held at Munich, a most interesting subject was brought out by Dr. F. C. Mueller, of Munich, in a paper enti tled "The Relation of Suicide to Alcohol." He found that both the consumption of alcohol and the number of suicides have increased very much lately. In thickly populated districts, workingmen's towns, the number of suicides is enormous and the alcoholic consumption is positively the cause of the suicide, inasmuch as neurasthenia is caused by alcohol. It is false to believe that beer is not detrimental or less so than whiskey. In oountries where whiskey is prohibited, e. g., in Norway, the number of suicides is surprisingly small. The author be lieved that alcohol so completely demoralizes the human being that suicide is a sort of relief to him. He was sorry to see alcohol introduced into therapeutics, for its ill-effects are far greater than its benefits. He believed alcohol to be a poison, and thought that physicians should take a decided stand against it. In fact, he believed we should be as careful in prescribing alcohol as we are in prescribing morphine or digitalis.--Berlin Correspondence of N. Y. Medical Record, October 17, 1896.

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