New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-06-21

stronger and stronger. The natural
life of the system constantly dimin-
ishes, and of course in order to seem
to live, what there is must be more
and more highly reused, till in one
half, one quarter, or one-eighth of the
proper time the whole is exhausted,
and the man sinks prematurely to the
grave.
"There is another principle which
tends also strongly to the same result.
The more any man partakes of this I'M
natural pleasure which alcohol coca
sions, the less susceptible he becomes
of the natural and innocent pleasures
oocasioned by the use Of nourishing
food and drink, by the view and con-
temptation Of the works of creation
and Providence, by the exercise of
the social affections, and the discharge
of the various duties of life.''
From the above quotation it is evil
dent that the deranged and exhausted
state of the system from which the
uneasiness when not under the excite
ment of alcohol springs, and which
causes the hankering or thirst after
the poison, is not natural state, nor
is that appetite natural appetite.
Such are some of the reasons why
men who begin to drink alcohol, and
receive from it nothing but injury,
nevertheless not only continue to
drink it, but to drink it in greater and
| greater quantity.
Let us now consider how it causes
death. Alcohol is a substance which
is, in its nature, unfit for the purpose
of nutrition. 1t is not in the power Of
the animal economy to deeompose it,
and change it into blood or flesh or
bones or anything by which the human
body is or can be nOurished, strength
ened, and supported. When taken
into the stomach it is sucked up by
absorbent vessels and carried into the
blood, and with that is circulated
through the whole system, and, to a
certain extent, is then thrown off
again. But it is alcohol when taken,
it is alcohol in the stomach, it is alco-
hol in the arteries and veins and
heart and lungs and brain and
among all the nerves and It's
sues and fibres of the whole body,
and it is alcohol when, after
having pervaded and passed through
the whole system it is thrown off
again. Give it even to a dog, and
take the blood from his foot and distil
it, and you have alcohol, the same
which the dog drank. Take the blood
from the arm, the foot, or the head OF
the man who drinks alcohol and distil
that blood and you have alcohol. You
, may take it from the brain, strong
t enough on the application of fire in an
, instant to blaze. Not a blood vesse
l however minute, not a thread of the
: smallest nerve in the whole ANNA
3 machinery escapes its influence. L
\ enters the organs of the nursing moth
q er, which prepare the delicate food TO
t the sustenance and growth of her child
\ having through its whole course pro
: 1luced, not only on the mother but ais
t on the child, the appropriate effects o
9 the drunkard's poison. This is a rea
. son why, after the mother has takel
i alcoholic beverages, the babe, although
before restless, sleeps all night like
: drunkard, and a reason also why sucl
0 children, if they live, often have al
appetite for spirit, and are S
t much more likely than othe
!: children to become drunkards. Thi
d is q reason also why, when tn
# parents have been in the habit of free
t. ly taking alcoholic beverages, thei
# children are so much smaller and les
n healthy than other children; have les
It keenness and strength of eyesight
n frmness of nerve, or ability of bod
+ and mind to withstand the attacks @
d disease and the vicissitudes of climate
e and seasons; and also a reason VIII,
= they have less inclination and les
Y talent for great bodily and menta
: achievements. By the operation O
e laws which no man can repeal or with
+ stand, the iniquities of the fathers ar
e thus naturally visited upon the chill
a dren from generation to generation.
Were the human body transparent
+ and the operations of its organs il
# sustaining life visible, every one nigh
It see that nature itself teaches that tn
n drinking of alcoholic beverages cal
G not be continued by any person with
= cut fastening his OF her death.
v The receptacle for food is thu
/, stomach and intestines. From these
/, after being changed first into chyme
d and then into chyle, it is taken up b,
n absorbent vessels and carried into tn
g blood, and conveyed to the right sid
n of the heart. From that it is sen
# to the lungs, and by coming
!. into contact with the air, an
a taking out of it what it needs, in orde
Il with what it has to nourish the body,i
Il is sent back again to the left side of tn
q heart. From that it is sent in arterie
# or tubes, prepared for that purpose, t
j, all parts Of the body, for the purpose q
y carrying the nourishment which it con
r. tains and which each part needs to ii
n proper place. Along on the lines G
v these tubes or canals, through whic
+ the blood with its treasure flows, is
f vast multitude of little organs or wait
n ers, whose Office is each one to take on
!. of the blood as it comes along that kin
o and quantity of nourishment which
i needs for its support, and also for til
Il support of that part of the body whic
J is committed to its care. And althoug
e exceedingly minute and delicate, the,
: are endowed by their Creator with tn
r. wonderful power of doing this, and ais
! of obtaining from or expelling an
e throwing back into the common mas
: what is unsuitable or what they do nc