Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1868-05-08
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becoz he hasn't a sublime confidence in
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Tea---COffee--- Alcoholic Opium--To-
baccO.
The following is from report of re-
cent lecture by DR.. Willard Parker, of
New York City, who is extensively known
as skillful and experienced physician,
and whose statements are considered high
as medical authority.
WASTE AND REPAIR.
Blood has been called 4" floating flesh" /"
1t is the Immediate storehouse out of
which the body is constantly formed, the
universal centre Of all the vital activity
/ Through the blood are carried on the
two great vital processes, repair and
waste. The human body always CON
Stunning, always replaced, is on one hand
an ineessant funeral, on the other an in
cessant birth. The funeral is the con-
stant dislodgement and removal Of used
up matter; the birth the constant forma-
ton and deposit of fresh new matter.
The blood of course directly supports
and influences both the great nervous
systems; the voluntary system, which
obeys the will (and can get tired) and
the involuntary, which supplies the vi
tality Of the organs of animal life, viz:
the stomach, heart, dc, (Which appar-
emily does not get tired.
The five chief stimulants are: tea,
coffee, alcohol, opium, tobacco.
Stimulants, when 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 stim-
ulate ; alcohol, opium and tobacco poison.
TEA AND COFFEE,
Some persons can use both tea and cof-
fee with impunity; few coffee, but not
tea good many tea, but not 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 in
both tea and coffee. Their nutriment
appears to protect the system against
over-stimuus.
ALCOHOL.
Man will have something to drink be-
sides water. He is drinking animal.
The thing required therefore is only that
he drink what will 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, therefore fermentation (Which
changes sugar into alcohol makes them
strongly alcoholic and intoxicating.
The liquors now drank are poisonous.
l have not seen case of delirium tre-
mems in the hospitals 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.
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 pro-
cesses 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. Dur
ing the riots of 1868, Mr.. Acton, Presi-
dent of the Board of Metropolitan Police,
went one hundred hours without eating
or sleeping, taking only from time to time
a cup of strong coffee.
OPIUM.
Opium-eating rapidly increases in Am
erica. The effects of it are well known.
yet its use does not necessarily shorten
life. Capt. Labrbush of New York city
for instance, who recently celebrated in
SVou hOaieh anu = si'HitS, HIS one nu0ureQ
and second birthday, for considerable
period used large quantities. Opium
used as stimulsnt gives very pleasura- |
BILE sensations for the time, but these are
followed by corresponding depression,
a 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 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 as long as they are allowed to use
tobacco.
The French public revenue from to-
bacco from 1912 to 1852 was annually |
s5,600,0O0; of late years it is s36, ,OOO.-