Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-09-22
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.

There is blue covered periodical
published in Williamsport, Pa, edited
by two doctors, named respectively Hels-
by and Mays. The title of this periodi-
cal is as follows: popular Journal of
Physical and Mental Hygiene" But
good reader, what sort of Hygiene do
you suppose this popular Journal
teaches? We copy from June number
the last at hand-in this it is stated
that ".IlcohoL IN small doses IS a vaIud-
bic nutrsment" Where in the world
did these Pennsylvania doctors study
chemistry? Alcohol "a valuable nutri-
ment p To be used as food, in small
quantities This may do for Pennsyl-
vania Dutch, but not for other folks.
Wrong, gentlemen, all wrong You are
off the track, and will lead your blind
and ignorant followers to drunkards'
graves.
Further on in the same number, these
wise Williamsport doctors quote an arti-
Gle on Tobacco, in which that most pest
ferrous weed is described as s'o very de-
6ghtfut stamatlant' and encourages IN
diligence" in its usel AS though the
gates of hell We're not already wide
enough open, these doctors must needs
lure other poor miserable sinners on to
| destruction and death. Do they not
know that indulgence in alcohol and to-
bacco is the bane of society. civilization.
and Christianity? That these two
things are emasculating the race? That
to their use is owing most of the power
ty, imbecility. pauperism, insanity and
crime, which afflicts us? Who is free
from the blight of these curses? Trace
the course of our hundred thousand
criminals to their cause, and you will
find it in these substances, which have
perverted their natures, weakened their
moral sensibilities, and left them warp
ed, weak and yielding. Then, in fren-
zy of passion, and bewildered mind,
rash and violent acts send father, or
mother, or wife, or children, to CORY
graves, while the murderer expiates his
insane act on the gallows. His epitaph
should simply be
DIED BY A HALTER.
CAUSE,
ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO.
medical advisers, Messrs. Thomas III
Helsby, M. D., and Thomas J. Mays
M. D., editors of-and so forth. BY
the way, we beg to inquire if these gen
tlemen smoke. chew or drink? If they
do, this fact accounts for the milk ii
that cocoanut. If they do not, one may
suppose them to be fishing for patron
age, by first inducing habits which lead
directly TO disease.
Now we do not know these men. W.
presume them to be, the way the worle
goes, good fellows; but, oh, how dread
fully and fatally mistaken in their phil
osophy and teachings! Nor arc the,
singular or alone in their errors. In
regular medical school of hundred stu
dents, two-thirds of them-with thei
teachers-will be found to be habitua
users of the weed, and considerable
number, users of alcoholic stimulants
1t is in accordance with their teachings
their experience, their perverted appe
tites and tastes. They lead, or the,
echo the public voice and vice. Tn
majority of them,-like Messrs. Helsb
and Mays-probably do not know an
better.
In view of the poisoned fountains, W
may well cry out and ask, "What shal
/ we do to be saved ?" Sweep the Who'll
poisoning paraphernalia, with its falls
medical philosophy, from the face of th
earth. We're it sunk in the sea, th
world would be the better for it. Wit
them would 60 the patent medicin
quacks; the mo cure, no pay quacks
the anatomical museum" quacks an
swindlers; the ''indiscreet young men
: quacks; the abortionists, and the hur
dred and one old granny medical super
, stitinns, which find '.cure alls" in skunk
, cabbage, smart weed, stink weed, an
other weeds. One of the greatest del,
sions Of the age-of any AGES foun
in the general medical practice of to-da,
$ -,Science of Health.