Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-09-18

healing art, can do her perfect work.
These things would be deemed brazen-
faced absurdties in any other case; but in i
relation 10 the use of intoxicating drinks
as medicine, they are deemed in this
country perfectly sound ard rational.
| It is to be feared that too many, who
are fond of taking this kind of 2otions,
have heretofore found too much protection
under the wing of their physicians and
surgeons. But document has been late
| ly published, which cannot fail of produc-
ing deep and extensive impression on
the British empire. It is signed by near
ly thirty of the most eminent and distin-
gulshed members of the faculty, in Lon
don and its immediate vicinity, aud must
carry authority with ii. wherever the per-
sons are known whose names are append
ed. The following is the document:
An opinion. handed down from rude
and ignorant times, and imbibed by Eng
lishmen from their youth, has become We
Try general, that the habituar use OF some
lportion of alcoholic drink-as of wine.
beer, or spirits beneficial to health and
even necessary for those subjected to hab-
itual labor.
Anatomy, physiology and the expert
ence of all ages, when properly examined,
must satisfy every mind well informed in
medical science that the above opinion is
altogether erroneous. Man, In ordinary
health, like other animals, requires not
any such stimulants, and cannot be bene-
/ fitted by the habitu0t employment of any
quantity of them, large or small; nor will
! their use during his lifetime increase the
: aggregate amount of his labor. In what.
y ever quantity they are employed, they
will rather tend to diminish it.
I :" When he is in state of temporary
/ debility, from illness or other causes, a
/ temporary use of them, as of other tonic
! medicines. may be desirable; but as soon
O as he is raised to his natural standard o.
l. health, continuance of their use can dc
l. no good TO him. even in the most moder
i ate quantities; while larger quantities I'VE
it such as by many persons are though
We moderately do sooner or later prove injuri
- GUS to the human constitution without an,
Y, exceptions.
a. i" 1t is my opinion that the above state
- ment is substantially correct"
ed will not traEscrlbe the signatures =
at but may state, that among them are tn
of names Of the physicians of the Quee
la Dowager, and Of her present Majesty
to Queen Victoria, and others not less dis
be tinguished in their profession. 1t will b
of perceived, by the last sentence in this in
lat valuable testimony tina; it was signed b
ce these gentlemen singly, and not jointly
- h.,o L
alton of a. few men, having a COMING
= purpose to accomplish; but the sober, d
ust liberate, and settled opinion of each on
ave as person of study, experience and 81
ing lence, without reference TO any particul
so. case.
6c- Such is the delicacy-perhaps sor
hey would say fastidionsness-of the facul
heir and especially in this country and in !
this lation to this subject, that the precauti
the of presenting the paper to each one SCI
lore rately, without any connection with o
| of ers, or any intimatlon OF the practical u
,ure to be made of the document, may ha
SUBJ been necessary to success. This (
; H. gives additional weight to the above M
ID is ical testimony, and it is to be hoped tina
IS of will effect mighty revolution in En-
hich land
The 1t is a matter of deep regret, that
ID in medical practice of Great Britain is alr
,nen universally wrong in relation to the e
ma ployment of alcohol, In some form, ia
liant treatment of disease 1t is the great ST
forts ulus and the greattonic of the nation
tions Slight ailments always require 1t, but
and er Weld to it. If it ever effected a c.
this plete cure, verify believe it would
nong half its reputation as medicine. 1t Sc
both to bring the patient into a delightful
~ = DO between sickness and health--a
habe, of fools paradise-wherea man is all
i the better for being little diseased, espe
have " if he has the benefit of good stoc
ans 7 medicine; and apolhecary shops abe
.reate in every part of the kingdom, for the
in the cial benefit of such patients This i
rlain- grand catholicOn, which is to accoml
e - much more than a perfect cure -thi
} used ALWAYS keep the patient in a state
a any desirable than that health.
grapes I have been utterly astonished at
Iles.-( vast number OF persons have met IL
,pt the ferent parts of the United Kingdom.
20 be take some kind of alcoholic dunk b
luding der Of their physician. AS to the p
are of uiar form of the stimulus, it seems
take it be matter Of much importance, so !
are in the type of disease is concerned; 81
nted IL ture, who always acts with great e
Labor, nv, and wisely adapts means 70 ends
on by accommodation to exigencies, pom
bought tEat remedy which best suits the Ia
Iistence circumstance of the Individual. !
,cessful wine is the best medicine for pers
! on the elevated life, and beer for the ia'
1t has classes. The more potent stimuli
,adicine ,;liod i;c,ore 80 10 he emnloVed