Whiskey, treatment

There has been a comparatively large number of fever cases, and what is peculiar, every case of illness of whatever character took... a typhoid form and yielded slowly to treatment. In most cases my reliance is on quinine, [with] whiskey or brandy in large and repeated doses. 

There are many synthetic chemicals that have been reported to increase lysis activity, chloroform being one of the earliest reported.68 More recently acid anti-inflammatory,87 antidiabetogenic,BS vasoactive,81 and diuretic agents,86 and anabolic steroids60 have been reported to have some effect on the lysis system. Even whiskey (alcohol) has been reported to enhance lysis.61 Hedner, et al.62 reported that ethyloestrend (8 mg/ day) increased spontaneous lysis in 45 patients with deep venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism after 3 months of treatment. Euphillin (amino-phylline) was reported to increase abnormally low fibrinolysis in human patients and in rabbits with venous thrombosis.09 When 40 mg of furose-mide was injected i.v. into 33 healthy people, the euglobulin lysis time was shortened.64 Since this activation was not found in patients with uremia and nephrectomy, an intact renal system appears necessary. 

Spirits may be divided roughly into two classes, (1) pot-still spirits, including brandy and whiskey and (2) gin spirits, made by the suitable treatment of plain rectified spirit or alcohol. The manufacture of spirits was made possible only by the discovery of the process of distillation, and is not, therefore, of such antiquity as the wine and beer industries. The products differ from fermented liquors from which they are produced, mainly in the larger content of... 

Treatment of Sxmstxoke, Take the patient at once to a cool and shady place, but don t carry him far to a house or hospital. Loosen the clothes thoroughly about his neck and waist. Lay him down with the head a little raised. Apply wet cloths to the head, and mustard or turpentine to the calves of tho legs and tho soles of tho feet. Give a little woak whiskey and water if bo can swallow. Meanwhile let some one go for tho doctor You cannot safely do more without his atl-vicc. 

Activated carbon removes substances that cause the hog-track odor, and use of it yields a young whiskey that will show greater and more rapid improvement in storage. The characteristics of normal maturing, as shown by increased content of esters and acids, become apparent in whiskey that has been treated with activated carbon. The treatment is applicable to all types of raw whiskey and also to rums and brandies. 

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