The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-06-27
Use or stimulants..

.aDr. Willard Parker, in recent address be-
fore the Young Mems Christian Association,
discussed the subject Of stimulants at some
length. He said:
The five chief stimulants are: tea, coffee,
alcohol, opium, tobaceo.
( Stimulants, when taken in liquid form, so
at once into the blood, and of course operate
promptly upon the tissues OF VII parts Of the
BODY. Tea. and coffee stimulate, alcohol,
opium and tobacco poison.
"a TEA AND COFFEE.
somo pergons can use both tea and coffee
with impuliity; few coffee, but not lea; q
good many tea, but not coffee. Tea and cof-
fee, used in moderation, do not shorten lie;
used in excess they do, however, producing
great nervous irritabiity and exhaustion.
Milk and sugar ought to be used with
both tea and coffee. Their nutrinnent up
pears to protect the system against over slim
illus. .''-,t5..'-' -
ALCOHOL. Ir
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.quar-
rel with pure lager bier and pure light ,Winos,
used In moderation. California wines are from
yery sweet grapes, therefore fermentation
(which changes sugar into alcoholl makes
them strongly alcoholic and Intoxicating.
The liquors now drank are poisonous. j
hospital for years. There used to be sloh, but
now such patients come in crazy-raylng, from
the effects, not OF alcohol but OF adulterated
liquor. - Z, :,
rug Other, certain geoo' man IN
to ind that q young man liked tea and coffee,
because then he was not likely to beceme fond
of alcoholic drinks" Again, tea and coffee re-
tard the processes OF waste in the system, and
thus enable the two nervous systems to furnish
working power to the body for longer time.
Alcohol has no such power. ~ ....
,3 OPIUM.
Opium -eatipg rapidly increases in America.
The effocts OF it are well known, yet its use
does not necessarily shorten Life. Opium used
as stimulant gives very pleasursb:e sensa-
tions for the time, but these are followed by
corresponding sGna Of n ths
plea urefs brought back by the use OF o little
more opium than before.
TOBACCO.
The moderate use OF tobacco does not neces-
sariIy kill. But it cannot be said that the
moderate use OF it is harmless.
Perhaps tobacco is not quite 80 bad as rum,
but they are, twin brothers, and tobacco makes
men drink. Tobacco depresses, and the user
then Graves liquor to stimulate him: 1t is
found impossible to cure inebriste patients OF
the use u liquor 30 long as they arc allowed to
use tobacco. The Trench public revenue from
tobacco from 1912 to 1882 was annually S., 600, :
OO0 Of late years it is $685. 900 900. During. the
former period there were in France at any given
time 5000 lunatics and paralytics, now there
are 1900.
Il viii be seen that the Two totals increase in
nearly an even ratio-six-and-a-h hnR times as
much tobacco, five-and-a-half times as much
lunacy and paralysis. Those who live outdoors
NAV riss tobacco without feeling it 30 much ;
but not men of sedentary life: There have
died in New York with within few years three
excellent clergymen, all Of whom would now be
alive had they not used tobacco. The differ
euce in the operation OF tobacco and alcohol ls
ttis: while alcohol causes tangible changes in
certain organs, tobacco gradually, lowers the
vital tone OF the whole system, 80 that the life
ends sooner than il ought to.