Medical use of alcoholic beverages

Good Brandy has always been looked upon as a most valuable medicine and restorative in cases of illness and exhaustion.

Whisky is a powerful stimulant to the heart and arteries and the general nervous forces, and counteracts malaria, hardens the tissues of the lungs, counteracts tuberculosis, or consumption. Taken properly it diffuses a warmth all over the body, acting on the brain forces so as to make a person feel hopeful, buoyant and ambitious. Many lives have been saved with it from low forms of fever.