The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1864-07-09

him than 1t would be TO those VINO MAKE
no use of intoxicating liquors.
''Ah doctor you must not make the
matter too bad" Grid /. "What you say
may be true in the case of drunkards."
'No, not at all, my countryman,"
returned he. cit is already the case with
you. Heaven forbid that the cholera should
come you would in all probability be .
victim. In London, seven-eighths of those
who were seized with the cholera died with
out any possibility of being saved, and that,
too, of these among the upper as well as
the lower class of people, who were fond OF
taking their daily dram. You may depend
upon it; and experience has abundantly
proved it; that of ten young mem psae,a
from their twentieth to their tbirtieth year,
drink daily not more than one to two wine
glasses full of liquor, more than one-half,
after the lapse of ten years, will be dead,
and the rest will become prematurely dis
eased."
But, my dear DOCTOR" said I, "there
are still not only drinkers, but even drunk
ards, who, with all their rum drinking, be-
come old and gray
"But these old brutes, if you will look
at the matters in their true light, have rob-
strength, but also Of the best powers of their
minds. Behold their confused, vacant
look, and the trembling of their hands
These individuals form an exception from
in consequence of their sins. What does
not befall the dram drinking father, must
be endured by his offspring. Behold his
children They are sickly, diseased in their
limbs, and pale. They are scrofulous. and
subject to other bodily infrmities. If they
tread in the footsteps of their father, with
regard to dram-drinking, they die before
they are thirty years of age.'
"WelI, WE'LL" said I, Gin this you are
right. know examples of the kind. We
must, however, distinguish between the use
and abuse of the thing
''By all means, my fellow countryman,"
returned he, ''the use of intoxicating drinks
is even much more frequent than the So
called abuse. But they both, on this &C
count, do not cease to manifest their iniu-
rious effects on the human system, as you
yourself have already experienced. Intox
icating liquor is, in all circumstances, poi
son. Mark this ! AS drink, it does not
serve to allay thirst, but on the contrary,
increases it. 1t does not afford nourish-
ment, for it has no nourishing properties in
it. On the contrary, it evidently weakens
the stomach and bowels. It accordin gly
does not contribute anything to the preser-
walton of health, but helps to destroy it..
| The history of drinkers, if we will observe
it little closely, makes this abundantly
manifest. Those among the poorer class,
who drink the liquor distilled from corn,
potatoes and rye, have pale, discolored,
sickly countenance. The wealthy, who
make use of cherry bounce, French bran
dy, and strong imported wines and liquors,
have red, blOated, copper colored appear
ance."
Doctor" said 7, ''you almost make m g
afraid of my pretty face. am of the opin-
ion that the injury resulting from wine and
brandy arises from the abuse of them, and
to this I adhere. It is the use of them on
ly that converts them into poison
"No, my fellow countryman, not that
alone p cried the doctor, ''but the alcohol
is the poison. With from one to two glass
es full of pure alcohol you can almost in
stantly kill a sound, healthy person who is
when mixed with other substances, alcohol
fastens itself upon the seeds of disease in
the system, and causes them gradually to
produce their direful effects. Wine and
beer, when moderately taken, are less inju-
rious than brandy, because they contain
less alcohol. For in beer there is at most
only from one to two per cent. alcohol, and
in good German wine, from four to eight
per cent. Good French wines contain from
ten to fifteen per cent. of this poison the
Spanish and Port wines from nineteen to
twenty-five per cent. Brandy and cherry
bounce contain from twenty-four to fifty
three per cent. of alcohol. This makes the
difference %
"You believe, then, doctor, in reality.
that the alcohol is the destructive or poison
Gus principle? And yet it is used for med
ical purposes !"
''Most assGredly, just as we use quick
silver or mercury as medicine, but never
as nourishment, or for daily use. Alec
hol is, and remains poison, as much so al
mercury. Like mercury, it penetrates th
blood and bones; is cast off and rejected
J by all the internal parts which it attacks
and in part passes out of the system I'M
} changed, and in part remains in it IN
changed"
, away with all your alcoholic and mer
: curial prescriptions % cried I. "Wha
will you recommend to me for my stomach
and my indisposition must st;l drink
Prescribe something for me-"
; "Nothing ~ cried the unmerciful ply
stefan. ''The best thing, however, for you
! health, is good. pure water. In order t.
restore you again fully to sound state
: take moderately every morning few small
glasses of fresh water. and the same guam
tity in the evening before going to bed. D.
> this every day. Drink no distilled liquor
t of any kind whatever; for it is beverag
: manufactured by art, and not a natura
) drink. promise you, my fellow country
] man, if you follow my advice, in the cours
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