The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-05-28 00:00:00

A DORCHUTICH MAN ON ALCOHOL

At Llaithdu, Youtgotnery. an Interesting lecture upon
"Temperance has been delivered by Me Jou. Brown,
surgeon of Llanbister. before • numerous and attentive
audience. In his introductory remarks, the lecturer
briefly explained the meaning of the terms " Temperance"
and " intern eeranee," pointing out thst both bad reference ,
to other milieu. than drink. He sisigested that when I
potties pledged their Waal; ti; 0 Certain things without
proper previous couideration of the Wei/at, they thereby
constituted themselves atumbline blocks and ros.ks çj
offence t others who would do good but for the bed
exempla.' set them by toe former. He Aso remarked upon
the want of principle &awn by some employer. compelling
their dependents to become total abstainers from it,
toxicants, while they were themselves encored in
the !lime? traflic. He considered that total abstinence
was very neuseary fqr btoh patties, and that letemper-
sacs exhibited UAW in both tLe above cases. He
rontinuol, people very often mire up the subject and
proceed to deal with it as though it referred todrink only.
whereas, if they would put on their considering cape, they
would speedily fiqd that it related to every state of a
religiose, social, ',infield, or moral character in life. We
often read about and talk about matters of every day life,
eta because some people don't think as we do upon
various subjects, we think and talk harshly of them, and
at times are ready to punish them, se • e sometimu say,
for their freedom of speech, word and deed, tor getting
that west in sauce for the goow is alio mace for the gander,
it.W that • double edge' tool cuts both ways. The lecturer
.W.ed that in man or the human race, we have aspecies of
beings eudiwed with spiritual or incorporeal, ant I. mound ,
or corporeal facultiu the one state relating to the '
past and tutu., orel 1.40 other having reference to
the present powwowing mental as intellectual powers as
well as bodily or material form. Ku haviug a soul and ,
hsving been created in the likens.s and emu. of the
Supreme Author of all thing., what • sad reflection and
disgusting spectacle to behold Hire ituanding from His
high and lofty estate as Lord of Creation to • position of ,
cont.;mpt end degradation far lower than that of any I
other created, being simply because he is tit, idle to I
employ thou mlets which were placed in him at his I
birth, so that he miiht be of some use in hie day and I
immostion. He then proceeded to define intoxication'
reabititian that parties could be druskissdnotintioxieet-d.
and Wes mess giving examples of each state in ite turn.
He next took up the causes of drunkenness in ila various
phases, explaining fully why one idividual is gamer in
" view. Street" than another, following on with the com-
position of alcohol (ce It oS.) which be stated entered
the blood by the mouth, skin, and other wayr, being •
•difi,,ible stimulant. it is carried through the blood into
' all the °ripens, structure and parts throughout the
from., frequently unchanged se is proved during making
post werteue examinations. The lecturer entertains the
opinion that sleoliol ii a narcotic • being in no Nene. •
food, it reduces the tuittiel heat and force, overtaxes the
heart, weakens the neweise, wily..e the whole nervous
system, induces bodily and Mental dismiss, buplants evil
induences which pam through generations, destroys the
vital arcane, loosens the general happiness and usefulness,
and shortens life in a general way. 'The following stages
are produced by alcohol Excitement with congestion
of the weakened bloodvessels, excitement of the spinal
marrow with irrogeler movements of the body, ex-
haustion of the brain, followed by perverted reason-
ing and folly, complete prostration of the nervous
system and entire sensibility, death. During the whole
of the above, the heart is the ;mutest sufferer, alcohol
being its hardest teekmaster. The notion that it keeps
out the cad ia entirely fallacious, the opposite state being
the actual fact by its reducing the real temperature of
the body, and thereby diminishing the natural quantity
of animal heat. The following dames are frequently met
with. Those whom alcohol has primed for their work
who incomes their quantity as the day advances& acd
without getting drunk, not muddled. Old topers, with
blue noses and face like bilberries—not a very lively
crew with their brains, hurt& and other vital organs
muddled, and who, suffering from the slightest shock fall
and die, without any apparent or real chance of recovery.
Some here obtained an unnatural craving for alcohol by
its trequent abuse which continues until they die in an
asylum, whilst others become periodically mad, causing
themuless and others around or in contact with them
much nunecusent misery and wretchedness, terminating
their lives se dangerous Justice also, in an asylum. It was
pointed out the aeohol is sometimes held to be good and
could not be done without Question—good for whet!
When drinkers of intoxicants usual,' die comparatively
preemtur
service,
°onside:2We portions of the army,
navy, merchant ice, parties se prolonged swimmers,
wrestlers. w artic explorers, occupants of prisons,
total abstainers from inioxicute, and numerous others
li.. longer and possess • Mims share of health than
alcoholic consumer.. The lecturer asked the triesitim of
the opposition to the Permissive Prohibitory Bill, as well
as to the 'ride and English Sunday Closing and other
Temperance measures now before Parliament from the
Government and all other obstructive& He suggeted
the immediate and total abolition of the malt tax, with
the view to • larger supply of human food, making it.
M adoption for uniments summarily and huvily peueL as
well as other substances suitable in any form for such
purpose. In sdil tion to which • plentiful sad permanent
supply of whole...cue water; good. nutritioue, adulterated
feet eta beveresee ; wl.edepted, well built, and
thoroughly-ventilated dwellings, ...la proper surround.ng& 114,11 strongly advocated 'dog tq be cor.stsnily
begging parochial sod other subsides frees Goverfement
a. well as for the Mate, Is her various departments, to
stamp out the drink plague, and substituting everything
of an elevating, educational, and wholesome order for the
improvement—mentally and physically—of all ages and
muses of citizen& It tem asked how far drink was the
cause of mining, railway, skipping, and numberless
other accident., mishaps, and manatees! Whether
• both empheyers and employed were always free
from the ill effects of intoxicants and oats. I How
ler the total-abetioenes practlaee were carried ant
And whether total eibetsinere should not always b•
employed In public and private duties casualty. mere
especially thou of a dangerous or impartial nature! The
conduct of the clerical profession. in a temperance point
of view, wee very lareseticially and eatirically handled
from the nrchiteleops downwards, be rebus their haetes
pomeeeiag property licensed for theists of Intoxicant.;
their not heing—sores of tball, at lenut--elersys in a fit
mete to bury the dead their keeping in the offices of
perish clerk& sad Sunday school umbers' parties, guilty
of drunkenness sad inumortelits, against the
nemustassoss ot mouse d their fellow pomades.. 7S:it.
'wiling at fumed Madams for in beverages,
when all others pSeeent en partaking oticrilness toxicants;
their alternately beldam War half-yesses shim ...mem
Zvatto reddes ias sad the effi
gLeietZ ga bpipary ;
am &emit Mips at the cask, pug; *sir
=rnmuLl.y attending the anniud feseinds of the ilessased
se an and mesa es*.'.
IssAe: their (repeenoosullement weismis.
at visas to lise Maus
being obliged to be waisted Heenp=--• esel;
• very unsatisfactory mental coaditlea ; sad
th ftpust,_.ser thew —attain
pieties _ pis to INWIMBI some
from the total iebsftele plappe. ari
seem acalir se Ito eseeleemees aralis mai by
the Romeo derv, wheelie be etropicke advieed all other
spiritual tesehen to follow in its militate. Xe mentioaed
that the yearly payment of shout 1:31,1:4111,0111) in Miss by
the public--not the bead Ms llquor tralle—wmild
unneeesiaary If alochtw beverages were disunited with,
sad that amount, together with that cash spent annually
in intoxicant. and owlets& as well spsjecixinams of
suaobed yearly in our criminal, lunseyarsZ
, Filte-ee 57:14:1"' ployuld stimulate irlid
ere .Led kinda
be more mt
' lees iiimme, ire quaker, In tteseiona, trades,
lbw= =ma m and social tam
sad teals. ;
• &ad la mule of HI&
MTlacts °Loma Debt ereilki be flab' deebeffelL