Chronicle and mix, Volume XXII, No.2 (1915)

Resolutions convened by the Pirogov Society in Moscow on May 9-11 of the current year by the Council of doctors and representatives of medical and sanitary organizations on the issue of combating alcoholism were expressed in the following: A. On the issue of scientific assessment of alcohol and alcohol-containing liquids. 1. Scientific data (physiology, general pathology, clinics) induce to attribute alcohol, and then, and the liquids containing it (the so-called alcoholic "drinks") to the category of harmful, poisonous substances. Alcohol is a typical narcotic poison, which already from the very beginning, taken even in small doses, builds up the higher sending of the brain, in consequence of which a number of pleasant, but deceptive sensations (illusions) of warmth, energy, vigor are created.