The morning comet. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1856-1856, 1856-10-07

THE HrsToRY OF DRuNKENHsa,--
DR.. Turner in an address which he
delivered ut the Broadway Tabernacle
on the 7tb Of November, in behalf Of
tho United States, Inebriate Asylum,
in speaking of The influence which
inebriety has upon nations, uses the
following language:
Inebriety is the first disease of
which we have any record. It dates
it's extence from the birth ofthe grape,
the formation Of wine from which was
one of the first discoveries Of man
We find nothing in the medical re
cords Of the Egytiaps to prove that it
was recognized as disease. Hscu-
lapius, Hippocrates and Gallen, are
likewise silent on the subject. Yet
we have for the recorder of the pathol-
ogy of inebriety, the most renowned
man of ancient or mordern times
Solomon describes the malady in the
most significant language. AT the
last it bitetb like a serpant and sting
eth like an adder Thus we have
sacred history to establish the fact
that inebriety was the most frightful
and destructive disease then known
comparing it to the venomous bite Of
the serpent and the deadly sting ofthe
adder, which have no specifc-.no
cure
We are compelled to trace the infuen-
CO of this disease in nations rather than
individuals, and form our opinions
from the facts of history which record
the rise and full of races and nations.
When the seeds Of this deadly mala-
dy were sown by the great men Of
Babylon, Egypt, Greece and Rome,
in their Bacchanal feasts, then the
greatness Of these mighty nations be-
gan to decline, and their chosen people
persisted and passed away. Babylon,
with all her glory and magnifcence,
fell into the hands Of the Persians
when her rulers were drunk with wine,
and her people maddeped by the in
toxicatipg bowl
BY ipebraty Egypt lost her ruler,
the world her conqueror. in the death
Of Alexander the Great, in the thirty
third year of his age. The historian
pens the fact that he perished through
self-indulgence-by disease that
biteth like serpent and stingeth like
an adder"
Polished Greece, the grand deposit
tory of the arts and sciences Of the
civilized world, the residence Of the
historian, philosopher. statesman and
physician, was the first which erected
a temple to the God Bacchus. Little
did her great men consider that
they were dedicating temple to a
God on whose altar would be sacrificed
the glor, of their beloved country.
The Bacchanalan feasts in the 10
man Empire we're the cause of her
degenerated councils and her weak
government, 1nebriety was the mala
dy that destroyed the Roman states
man, general and soldier. Thus Rome
fell by this physical and moral conta-
gion, and the dark ages followed in
her downfall
Arabic history proves conclusively
that the Arabians, were temperate
people. Their philosophers consider
ed wine blood of the devil, and that
whoever partook off was devilish. -
The Isbmaeltie, and his temperate and
primitive mode of life, combined with
bis indomitable courage, has proved to
the Psychologist that where the diseas !,
of inebriety has not been found in a
race, there will be discovered full
development Of physical power, capa-
BILE of enduring the greatest amount of
labor and fatigue, mind with energies
that know not defeat, will that can
never be subdued
New England Farmer