Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-05-01
Use of Stimulants.

DR.. Willard Parker, in a recent address
before the Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton, discussed the subject of stimulantS at
some length. He said:
The five chief stimulants are tea, coffee,
alcohol, opium, tobacco.
Stimulants2when taken in liquid form,
go at once into the blood, and of course
operate promptly upon the tissues of all
parts of the body. Tea and coffee stimu-
late; alcohol, opium, and tobacco poison.
f~tf'e 70 TEA AND COFFEE. #4E
Some persons can use both tea and coffee
with IMMUNITY; few coffee. Tea and cot
fee used in moderation do not shorten life !;
used in excess they do, however, produc-
ing great nervous irritability and exhaus-
ton. ,..-..t,..-
Milk and sugar ought to be used with
both tea and coffee Their nutrilnent ap-
pears to protect the system against over
stimulus + &w5ss-
ALCOHOL. ,-s
Man will have something to drink besides
water He is drinking animal. The
thing required, therefore, is only that he
drink what shall not harm him. There
need be no quarrel with pure lager beer
and pure light wines, used in moderation.
| California wines are from very sweet
| grapes, tucTclOI6 NWIlCl
| changes sugar into alcohoD makes them
strongly alcoholic and intoxicating.
The liquors now drank are poisonous.
have not seen case of deltr6un1 treDaens
| in hospital for years. There used to be
such, but now such patients come in crazy
-raving; from the effects, not of alcohol,
but of adulterated liquor. t.,..,
| AS between tea and coffee on one hand,
/ and alcohol on the other, a certain good
man in New York used to say that he
was always glad to find that young man
| liked tea and coffee because then he was
not likely to- become fond of alcoholic
drinks" Again, tea and coffee retard the
/ processes Of waste in the system, and thus
| enable the two nervous systems to
| furnish working power to the body
for a longer time. Alcohol has no such
| power. sa h} Nteft'
asss OPIUM. N5sso
Opium eating rapidly increases in Amer
ica The effects of it are well known, yet
its use does not necessarily shorten life.
| Opium, used as a stilnulant, gives very
pleasurable sensations for the time, but
| these are followed by corresponding de-
preston, slough of exhaustion and mis-
| cry which continues until the pleasure is
Brought back by the use of little more
/ opium than before. easse> -aes-ra
| s~&@ ~ TOBACCO.
i The moderate use of tobacco does not
necessarily kill. But it cannot be said that
| the moderate use of it is harmless.
| Perhaps tobacco is not quite so bad as
rum, but they are twin brothers, and to-
bacco makes men drink Tobacco de-
presses, and the user then Graves liquor to
stimulate him. 1t is found impossible to
cure inebriate patients Of the use of liquor
SO long as they are allowed to use tobacco.
The French public revenue from tobacco
| from 1912 to 1882 was annually $5,600,OOO
of late years it is $36,OO0,000. During the
| former period there were in France at any
given time 5000 lunatics and paralytics,
now there are A, 900.
| 1t will be seen that the two totals in
crease in nearly an even ratio-six and a
half times as much tobacco, five and half
times as much lunacy and paralysis
Those who live outdoors may use tobacco
without feeling it SO much !; hut not men of
sedentary life. There have died in New
York, within few years, three excellent
clergymen, all of whom would now be
alive had they not used tobacco The diff.
ference in the operation of tobacco and
alcohol is this: while alcohol causes tangi-
BILE changes in certain organs, tobacco
| gradually lowers the vital tone of the
whole system, so that the life ends sooner
than it ought to. la is