"Ode to Health;

Date: 1896-1903

Series: N2009-5 - Civil War veterans medical journal, 1896-1903.

Civil War Veterans Medical Journal.

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Early Florida Medicine

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Curtis, Frall, with scores of others both in Europe
and America are nobly helping forward the blessed
enterprise. I think it was about 1856 while on a committee
of "Reforms," in the Rochester Conf. of the Wesleyan Conner-
ion, I presented a Resolution to memorialise the General
Conf. to erase from the Discipline in the article of the use
of ardent spirits the words "except for medicinal purposes." There was a long discussion upon the subject, and although
the resolution did not pass, yet there was a goodly number
in favor of it. It is time it was done. Through a misstake
of one of the secretaries, the report was entered on the Journal. I think it would now pass in all the Conferences.

Brandy as Medicine
"Brandy kills multitudes every year who enjoed per-
fect health before they began to use it, thence it seems fair to infer that it will kill the sick more speedily."
Dr. Lees said that he was living near Bucking-ham
Palace, in London, where Prince Albert was taken
sick. [with typhoid fever.] His case was doing well for a few days, when they began to give him brandy to strengthen him,
to enable him to recover more rappidly, the more he was stimulated the worse he grew until he died."

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