Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1868-04-30
Use Of Stimulants.

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DR.. Willard Parker, in a recent address
before the Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton, discussed the subject Of stimulants at
some length. T. He said:,a -r'a-5 sf=re5 "A
The five chief stimulants are: tea coffee,
alcohol, opium, tobacco.
Stimulants, when taken in a 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 stinau-
late /; alcohol, opium, and tobacco poison.
TEA AND COFFEE. a. f,...,,
Some persons can use both tea and coffee
with impunity; few coffee. Tea and cof-
fee used in moderation do not shorten life
used in excess they do, however, produc-
ing great nervous irritabiity and exhaus-
ton.
Milk and sugar ought to be used with
both tea and coffee. Their nutriment APP
pears to protect the system against over
stimulus.
/ Man will something to- drink b. Sides
water. He is drinking animal. The
thing required, therefore, is only that he
drink what shall not harm, him, There
need be no quarfelswith pure lager beer
and pure light wines, used in moderation
California wines are from very sweet
grapes, Therefore fermentation (Which
changes sugar into alcohol) makes them
strongly alcoholic and intoxicating.
? The liquors now drank are poisonous. l
have not seen y ease of delirium tre,aens
in hospital for years. There used to be
such, but now such patients come i'm crazy
-raving; from the effects, not of alcohol,
but of adultcrated liquor
As between tea and coffee ON one hand
and alcohol on the other, 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.
OPIUM gtl. n
Opium eating rapidly increases'in Amer
lea. The effects of it are well known, yet
its use does not necessarily shorten life
Opium, used as stimulant, gives very
pleasurable sensations for the time, but
these are followed by a 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 q Is J9lJH
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 $4,000, 900
of late years it is $50, 000 000 During the
former period there were in France atany
given time 5000 lunatics and paralytics,
nowhere are $4,000
twill be seen that the two totals in
Grease in nearly an even ratio-six and
half times as much tobacco, five and a half
times as much Mnacy and paralysis.
Those who live outdoors may use tobacco
without feeling it so much; but not men of
sedentary life. There have died in New
York, withinla 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. y at N nID