New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-12-05

,,,u,as were numerous. One Of the most com
mon and obstinate forms of disease was dstension
of the stomach caused by drinking ipordinste qasn-
titles Of wine and beer. ! may state en- passant,
that many of these moderate Germans boast of
being able 10 drink gallon OF wine per day, and
glssses Of TeutOnic ale too numerous to mention.
Prof Oppolzer, a Psychologist and ply sician OF
world wide celebrity, whose 6libiques attended,
often deprecated the drinking habits of the Ger
mans as deleteIious to health AMI general hap
piness And in my opinion the Viennes7 are more
unhealthy and of shorter lives than the inhabitants
tf New.Yorb.
Hyrt by far the greatest apatomist OF the age,
used to say that ne could dstinsui in the dark
est room, by single stroke of the scalpel the
brain of an iDebriate from that of person who
had lived sOberly NoT aud then he wOuli con-
graduate bis class upon the possession of drunk
ards brain, admirably fitted from its hardness and
more complete preservation for thu purposes of
demon stIaiiOn When the auatOmist wishes to
preserve humsD brain for any length OF time, ne
effects bis object by keeping that organ 10 vessel
Of alcohol From g soft PUPPY substance II then
becomes comparatively bard. But the inebtiate,
anticipating the snstomist, begins the lndurstDg
process before deatb-begins il while the brain
remains the consecrated temple of the soul, while
IT'S dtlicate and gossameI tissues still thrOb with
the pulses Ct HEAVIER. born life. Strange infatus-
ton thus to de,ecrsfe the godlike Terrible en-
ebsntment that dries up all the fountains OF
generous feeling, petriies oil the tender humani-
ties and sweet charities of life, leaving only
brain of lead and heart OF stone
The consumer of tobacco has at least the pleas
ing consolation that should be fall into the hands
OF the Feiee islanders those fastidiJus cannibas
will doubtless think bis body too vile and filthy to
be eaten but the consumer OF alcohol will do well
to remember that the man of the scalpel would
prize biz self petrfed brain much the geologist
does a rare fossil.
Vienna is one Of the most dissolute capitals of
Europe. The low morslty-the ndecencies ex-
hibited on every hand-'he universal decoration
Of the ssbbath-hslf of the births in the city il
legitimate the troops of ]egalized prostitutes
single lyiog.in hospital, to which married fe-
male can scarcely procure adm ssion producing
annually between four aud five thousand bastards
for death in infancy or prostitution and cOnscrip
ton in later years-wOuld ali these things be as
they are if the Vennese were temperate people,
No ore, | believe, eau resist the conclusion that
the drinking habits Of the people lie 10 the foun-
datiOn of most of these evils. Were the Germans
to dispense with vine and beer, they would become
more earbeaded, thoughtful and virtuous. Their
theological vogaries would disappear the despotic
antiliberal tendency of their literature would
soon cease to exist, and German infdelity, that
muddy stream of presumption and pedautry, would,
when viewed in clearer light, become more re-
pulsiSe and less injurious. With them the grosser
appetites ere suffered to