Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-06-11
Use of StimulantS.

| "a III. w lidiu dlh hCI, LII It
cent address before the Youn.
Mems Christian Association, dis
cussed the subject of stimulant
at some length. He said:
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 prompt
ly upon the tissues of all parts of
the body. Teaand coffee stimulate,
alcohol, opium, and tobacco poi
SON.
TEA AND COFFEE.
Some persons can use both tea
and coffee with impunity; a few,
coffee. Tea and coffee used in
moderation do not shorten life;
used in excess they do, however,
producing great nervous Irritable
ty and exhaustion.
Milk and sugar ought to be U.s.
ed with both tea and coffee. Their
nutriment appears to protect the
system against over stimulus.
ALCOHOL.
Man will have something to
drink besides water. He is a
drinking animal. The thing re-
quired, therefore, is only that he
drink what shall net harm him.
There need be no quarrel with
pure lager beer and pure light
wines, used in moderation. Cali
fornia 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. [ have not seen a
case Of deliriuna h'enaens in hospi-
tai 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,
a certain good man in New York
used to say that che was always
glad to find that a 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 en-
able the nervous system to fur
nish working power to the body
for a long time. Alcohol has no
such power.
Opium-eating rapidly increases
in America. The effects of it are
well known, yet its use does not
necessarily shorten life. Opium,
used as a stimulant, gives very
Dleasurable sensations for the
lime, but these are followed by a
depression, a slough
IF exhaustion and misery, which
continues until the pleasure is
brought back by the use of a little |
more opium than before.
TOBACCO.
The moderate use of tobacco |
loes not necessarily kill. But it |
AN not be said that the moderate
lse of it is harmless.
Perhaps tobacco is not quite as
,ad as rum, but they are two
and tobacco makes men
rink. Tobacco depresses, and
he user then Graves liquor to stim-
llate him. 1t IS found 1mpOssi-
lie to cure inebriate patients of the
lse of liquor So long as they are
.llowed to use tobacco. The
french public revenue from to-
'acco from 1872 to 1882 was an
lually S5,600,OO0, of late years
is $36,O00,OOO. During the
ormer period therewere in France
t any given time 5000 lunatics
nd paralytics, now there are A.
100.
It will be seen that the two to-
ais increase in nearly an even
and a half times as
nuch tobacco, five and half times
$ much lunacy and paralysis
hose who live outdoors may use
obacco without feeling it SO much;
ut not men of sedentary life.-
here have died i'll New York,
within a few years, three excel
ent clergymen, all of whom would
Iow be alive had they not used