The Hickman courier., 1868-05-09
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dress before the Young Mems ChristiaV
Association, discussed the subject Of
stimulants at some length He said
The FIVE chief stimulants are tea,
coffee, alcohol, opium, tobacco.
, StiInulants, when taken in a liquid
form, go at once into the blood, aud Of
course operate promptly upon the tissues
Of all parts of the body. Tea snd coffee
stiaUfate alcohol, opium, aud tobacco
poison.
TEA AND COFFFE-
Some persons can use both tes and
coffee with impunity few coffee. Tea
and coffee used in moderation do not
shorten life used in excess they do,
however, producing great nervous irrita-
bility and exhaustion.
Milk and sugar ought TO be used with
both tea and coffee Their nutriment
appears 10 protect the system sgainst
1 over stimulus.
ALCOHOL.
Man will have somethiD&o drink be.
sides water He is drinking animal.
The thing required, therefore, is only
.s-.s,l- ssf-s-s '@'.,'' ss-.s. a.s,r,a him
I There need be no quarrel with pure'lsgef
beer and pure light wines, used ia mod
Grafton California wines are from very
sweet grapes, therefore Srmen,ation
(Which changes sugar into alcohoD
makes them strongly alcoholic and in
toxieating
The liquors now drank arc poisonous.
| have not seen case of deliriun fre-
mems in hospital for years. There used
to be such, but now such patients come
in crazy-raying from the effects not of
alcohol but of adulterated liquor.
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
was not likely to become fond of alco-
holic drinks" Again, tea and coffee re-
tard the processes Of waste In the sys-
TEN, and thus enable the two nervous
systems to furnish working power to the
body for longer time. Alcohol has no
such power.
oPIUA \
Opium eating rapidly increases id
America. The effects Of il are welIv
known, yet its use does not necessarily
shorten life. Opium, used ar a stimu-
LIANT, gives very pleasurable sensations
for the time, but these are followed by
corresponding depression, slough of
exhaustion and misery which continues
until the pleasure is brought back by the
use of little more opium than before.
TOBACCO.
The moderate use of tobacco does NOT
necessarily Kill. But il can not be said
that the moderate use of il 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 az they are allowed 10 use
tobacco The French rs,hiis -~~.-....
ugally COO 90, lIf'sss 'pfsgts
thcre were N France at any gwen time
s 900 luuatics and paralytics, nov there
are 1900.
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 out doors may usc to
bsceo without feeling it so much but
not men Of sedentary life. There have
died in New York, within a few years
three excellent ciergymen, all Of whom
would now be alive had they not used
tobacco The difference in the operation
Of tobacco and alcohol is this: while
alcohol causes tangible changes in cer-
tain organs, tobacco gradually lowers the
vital tone of the whole system, so that
The life ends sooner than it ought to.