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Today on the rare occasions when a practitioner prescribes alcoholic drink for a patient, under the NHS, his prescription is usually ruled unnecessary by the medical ‘Referee’. rash attempt to treat disease without alcohol might result in conviction for manslaughter’. Just 100 years ago, a medical journal gravely warned doctors that the ‘. Nowadays some of these drugs are generally held to be of no or very limited therapeutic value. Over the centuries quite a number of these natural substances and more recently also their synthetic substitutes have from time to time enjoyed a great vogue as highly effective therapeutic agents for a wide range of illnesses. worldwide in the good and evil results they produce’. substances of no nutritive value, but taken for the sole purpose of producing for a certain time a feeling of contentment, ease and comfort’, and as ‘. These he describes in his book ‘Phantastica’ as “. ‘Of the innumerable chemical substances other than foodstuffs which the world contains’, wrote Louis Lewin half a century ago ‘none have a more intimate connection with human life than the narcotic and stimulating drugs’.
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