The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1884-11-25 00:00:00

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THZ RSV. H. P. RAMIS AT THS RUMS

DINNER.
lb at Mita.

Sir,—ln thaskieg your oorrespond•ot who sign'
" Moderation grids Toleratroo ' for his vary
Jost remarks now Mr. Haiku spook I would point
out that the words suited to have bun used by the
rev. geetlantsa do not bear the ooustramiou hoi appear.
is have out upon than. It is quite dine ha knew
that It I. a ride of our Chugs that one part of
wiping* may not be made reporatant to author, and
if the previous verses of the chapter from which be
noilo (Peewillts. r-d
sba uiblin.°:hrui-toulr.
with sotto( and drinking, but refers to in. rej Ming
of the Philltpian Ohrletioa. If the row. gentle/up
thinks 01U/who, I should ram him to calor porta of
St- Paul's I. chug, aid If be utopia ono part, may br
Ihs will these, via., R 01611041 uiw., 21, aol I Our. Till..
9to LA Let his. °wawa this. and their references
with any h• may /Moose to support hie opinion and I
vesture to Kodiak either milenos or • wiser apple:tidos
of scripture.
Arcadearma Farrar, In • .on peached at West-
minster A.bbey, saki ha knew it was parfectly easy to
qua, scripture to prove the blaring of drink, though
Um. fa tan times a• mach to warn against tta curs..
"AU this Is perfutly natural," be says. "It rime
In part from th• selfistuces. which hates to be dis-
turbed in Ito own Indulges/s.; in pert from prolousd
Ignorance of Um entire subject; in part from ludo's*,
and in part from ommoit. But things, for all
that, are as Marry are, and no amount of
ignorame or of indiffissoca will alter in. plaits,
glaring, utast fact that th• preont oonditios
of our drink trafilo, and the drink it sell.,
and the drooksinue whisk moults from it, are the
direct source of untold dims., of wide-spread lunacy,
and premature mortalita; of nearly all
that thare of psoperiam. of domes misery of suck
d.mth and Wismar •• la fully known to Clod only,
of • stormed population °urged with • doomed appe-
tite and an hereditary craving, of norly ovary sot of
brutal atrocity oosamitted In England, of nine-truttis
of all our existing orlon." And this, I take it, ia
quite sufficient to prevent aay reemnable man slut.
e.g in the way of the " Temperaace Chariot." Ant
I would add that in the fao• of those appalling facts,
which receive daily corroborative teetimony, It I. bard,
nay, impoimdbla for • philanthropic man to tolerat•
moderation—that undefinable highway from midrib
that ghastly procession of 100.000 dronkarde emerge
yearly I
No Christian man oan apply scripture to support a
spasm whioh produces such result' as them without
being guilty of a wilful brut* of that oommsadment
which say., " Thou shalt root take tha name of tha
Land thy God In vala."—l am, sir, your. truly.„.
Ltrx.
DR. MARTIN ON THN MR AND ABUSE 01
ALCOHOL.
To ao Editor.

fllr,—le the able and oourtaout letter that appeared
In your pacer of Monday laid under the above tea-
log. Dr. Kendall find. fault with tne for calm,
that "No doctor would oaw or ler blooding for any
tromplaiat under the sun."

Permit me to ask the old qusstion— " When doctors
differ who la to decide?" At • great medical inlet.
lag, Dr. It Munroe is report.. 1 to her said—" P rty
years IWO V. WIO4 to blood every One. I hay • set at
the tablet of a hospital, and when I her ern Pre-
rribed blue pill at night rid black draught in the
morning, I have known what the next Quinlan wool I
ba—' Have you any pain anywhere r And woe t. the
patrol if he said be had, or If ern ita thought he hml.
Th. rat has would certainly be rearrais ad uncials
duodenum (blooding to 12 orate). I have seen that
repeated a dorm those in wee morning upon all sorsa
of persona, of all use, of all sire, and of both ern.
A re-slalom took Oar la the profusion, and we gave
up the Liner."
In Jetliner's rover and annt.ing work, " • LI ink
About Doctors," be ear —" To opso • vela has tor
serer grerations been looked upon se beneath the
dignity of the lea ling professors of medicine or sur.
gory. The roasiona on which doctors have of late
years used the liana are so few that it is almor •
contribution to eitedkal gossip to bring up a new
instance." I marely mention these sayings to show
that my ...negotiated statement" was fru led on
tow alight authority. At the same time, I readily tv.w
Dr. Kendall's warrior knowledge. In .131
roe I did believe that bleeding was eatirely • thing
of the past as the celebrated gold.hoaded cans and
vinaigrette, that sorra part of hi. insignia, without
which no doctor of mediates presumed t pay • p...-
(reload visit, or oveit to be seen in public. N ,w,
however, I must Irma that among all the' ills that
lash is bre to then' may be one, or even two, for
which bleeding might prove • remedy.
My argument, nevorthrees, with regard to Ur
waterloo and tropenhae, is by no mean. weakened
by this admission. Thirty yean ago doctors hlod for
anything end everything. I myself was bled for
rheumatic fever, and In cooreputoos very nearly lost
my If., A marvellous reactloo ha. token place, and
reedier is hardly ever retorted to. Thirty years ago
broody was the pet drug in tleo pi:narrows* the
• vitm,the greed P• 111134111 la the treatment of all
dimmer If • man were in coollapee brandy revived
him I if in Ur ay of *olio why brandy relieved
him; If life was bombl out in fever brandy
him; sad if he was starved to death why brandy
warmed him. Onr ships went out to the Arctic
Regions charged with spirits to keep the men worm;
and our soldlors west out to India charged with spirit
r irons to give startneh and keep them 000 L Now,
what do we re Intl hair? Nothing lamer, birthing
thus the way In which the leading medical men have
wheeled into Una, and spoken word, which bays ad-
orned Dr temperance, ruse In the hour aa 1 o 'n-
otations of the people of England se probably nothing
Glee omild seer have done.
Dr. Kendall says that Dr. Richerdslo Is or of the
, revered men to the profaner, and ciu re his opinion.
' May I qaote soothe, opinion of this clever dater
and venture to express tbe bop. that Dr. Kendall will '
acorn and ant upon it. The profeesion—th is at
least who are men of arras and thought—hays
wetly generally given up the notion of Verso' as a
meriesity. Ws speak now of raohol as a wearer
Wa say that it produre fever sad kills, we say It
infers sad sprouts sad &owlet+. The grand truths
taught by scram are now all akar to this dirt, that
the ol 1 belief of alci holies drinks brag necessary as
foods for the wear of man is utterly untenable.
Aeohol is not mernary as a food, le Dot roessaey for
the waste of man, or any living things, but has
simply a physiological effect, perlectly nanabaral and
always dangerous.
Sr W. Gall may also be oonsidered a clever man.
What is 6180000 st "I hardly know any more potent
MOSS of dieser than alcohol, leaving out of Orr
thit face that it is • ferret sower of crime of all
deripti .a.."
K. & Potterer, Id. D., stands, I believe, high in
profesolon. Thin is hie vordlot.—" I am an
&barter, beicere, baring lIIIILIIIOO I the question on
all aides, I have cams to the • moltrion that the
set quuttity of alcohol limas my usefulness, and those
lawful pleasures which Providence has provided f r
me with no bountiful • hand."

B it, eh. I liere already ocoopied too much of y or
valuable mem, eo I will refrain from quoting tto
Published oplul me of other etuire.l in.., each ee Bir
Tbhuipeou. iir olr.w Clarke, Sir Aram, Coop.r,
Nrirmuir Barr, or that lemon' Illiktield 41014111 t .0
Of vb. evo Opt/Uses of Hollaud. These, one rind all,
appour tr improve thiethiedree hi no faltering or
doubtful tome ott " The use acid abuse of &loot, iL"—
I am, he,
H. Evarrr.
Dorchester, November, 1884.