V. Committee of Fifty

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{"value"=>"<p><em render=\"italic\">The Committee of Fifty</em> was organized to examine the abuse of alcohol. The Committee was established on October 20, 1893. An election held by the Committee resulted with the following officials: Seth Low, President, Charles Dudley Warner, Vice President and Francis G. Peabody, Treasurer. With regard to the latter position, William E. Dodge was elected to succeed Peabody as treasurer. The Committee was divided into four sub-committees as follows:</p> <p>I. On the Physiological Aspects of the Drinking Problem;</p> <p>II. On its Legislative Impact;</p> <p>III. On the Relations of the Liquor Problem to Economic Conditions;</p> <p>IV. On the Ethical Aspects of the Problem.</p>"}

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1. Minutes of the Sub-Committee
2. Reports
3. Reports of Colonel Jacob Greene
4. Sketch of the summary of the Committee of Fifty
5. Influence of the alcohol on the capacity of work by George P. Dreyer
6. Nutritive value of alcohol by W. O. Atwater
7. Alcoholic beverages and nutritive value
8. Nutritive value of alcohol and alcoholic beverages
9. Summary of the investigation relating to the influence of alcoholism on infection by A. C. Abbott
10. Relations of the drinking habit to insanity by John Shaw Billings
11. Critical review of the pharmacological action of ethyl alcohol with a statement of the relative toxicity of the constituents of alcoholic beverages by John Abel. (incomplete)
12. Sub-Committee report on the pathological aspect of the drink question as it relates to insanity
13. Report of the Economic Sub-Committee submitted to the Committee of Fifty
14. Draft of the Economic Sub-Committee
15. Report of the Sub-Committee on the legislative aspects of the drink problem
16. Partial report on the effects of ethyl alcohol upon the susceptibility of animals to infectious diseases by E. A. Darling
17. Dr. Friedenwald's report: Alcoholic toxicity in rabbits
18. On the present instruction in the psychological action of alcohol by H. V. Bowditch & C. F. Hodge
19. Comments and remarks on the work of the Sub-Committee by members
20. Memorandum of the Sub-Committee
21. Circulars
22. Forms and miscellaneous regarding circulars Statistics; accounts; clippings; printed matter; extracts from statements on alcoholic consumption
23. Notes that were the basic for John Shaw Billings bibliography on the literature of the psychological and pathological aspects of alcohol
24. Names of individuals to whom blank forms were sent out
25. Completed forms