Williams SE "The use of beverage alcohol as medicine, 1790-1860," J Stud Alcohol. 1980 May;41(5):543-66. Warner JH, "Physiological theory and therapeutic explanation in the 1860s: the British debate on the medical use of alcohol," Bull Hist Med. 1980 Summer;54(2):235-57. Jones, B.C., "A Prohibition Problem: Liquor as Medicine 1920-1933," Journal of the History of Medicine 18: 353-369, 1963. "The positive side of alcohol--use in medicine," Am Pharm. 1979 Dec;19(13):18. Dundee JW, Isaac M, Clarke RS. "Use of alcohol in anesthesia," Anesth Analg. 1969 Jul-Aug;48(4):665-9. Estes JW., "Patterns of drug usage in colonial America," N Y State J Med. 1987 Jan;87(1):37-45. ---------- From: Bradley C. Kadel <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Subject: alcohol as medicine Date: Wednesday, January 19, 2000 10:23 AM One of my students is working on a research project on the history of alcohol as a medicine. Any suggestions of books, articles or web material would be helpful. Brad Kadel Department of History Luther College