Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-10-01
STRONG DRINK.
The Effect of Various Liquors on
the Human System.

the Human System.
An English physician, DR.. Shorthouse,
has been making an interesting series of
observations on the in which yari-
GUS drinks act on different parts OF the
cerebro-spinal system which preside over
locomotion. He says, according to the
British Medical Journal, that elf a man
partake Of too large a quantity Of good
sound wine or malt liquor he usually stag
gers about from side to side, his gait is
very unsteady, and if he comes to grief
and to mother earth he falls on one
side or the other. If he take too much
whisky, especially that abomination which
is called Irish whisky, he is almost certain
to be seized with an irresistible impulse to
fall forward on his face. II he gets drunk
on cider or perry, the latter more especial
ly. he is certain to fall down suddenly on
his back and apparently without any pre-
vious warning. He once saw a number Of
men, who had made too merry at a harvest
feast, all fall down on their backs and get
up again and fall down in the same man.
ner. He had never witnessed anything Of
the like kind before, and was not a little
amazed as well as amused. The farmer,
who was a very shrewd Herefordshire pen,
told him that that was the effect invar;a-
bly, produced by perry, Of which his men
had that day partaken literally. He has
since that time seen several isolated cases
which AVE corroborated the farmers YER
sion of the action OF an overdose Of perry
or cider" DR.. ~Shorthouse's researches,
however, nave not been conducted with
sufficient precision, nor have they ex-
tended over a sufficiently wide field. The
American Investigators could have in
formed him that not only do different
drinks affect men in different ways, but
the effects differ according to the quantity
Of the beverage imbibed. Thus, while
four fingers Of the whisky peculiar to the
cheap saloons will cause the subject to vi
olently invert other people, q dose Of four
teen fingers will lead him peacefully to iu-
vert himself. The gin Of similar resorts.
which is not distinguishable from the ordi-
nary t%urpentine Of commerce., produces
pedal Eentanglements and precipitation
upon the bridge Of the nose, a fact OBJ
served by the Psalmist, who made allusion
to the relations Of the feet to the gin. The
rum Of these places invariably induces
pedestrian exercise upon the ear, the white
Medford variety leading the subject in
variably to walk off upon his left ear,
while old Jumaica as invariably inspires
his right ear with locomotive powers. The
brandy Of these resorts is as instantaneous
and overwhelming in its effects as a thun-
derbolt, and the victim who partakes of it
at once sinks down on every portion Of
himself simultaneously. As for the wines,
their action Is quite different. Instead Of
flooring the subject they impel him to
wander over the face Of the earth and never
sit or fall down. although his path be
strewn with ~banana-peels and lie along
stringpieces Of docks. Altogether, DR..
Shorthouss can and q far more fertile field
for investigation in these United States
than il open to him In England, even
without making inquiry into the more abb
struse and complicated beverages Of the
great West, like the far-famed Shepherds
Delight OF Nevada, one drink Of which fas.
cinating fluid moves the assimilator to
steal his own sheep. and hide them in the
remote sagebrush from his own pursuit.