Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1880-04-08

yertisement refers: "Give: your child
a bottle of this and he will never cry
again; :" in which is unwittlngly made
a statement less alarming than the ac-
tual truth would warrant.
More fearful still is the fact that
while the child depends exclusively up
on the nourishment supplied by the
mother, that mother will dare to stimu-
late herself with that which, mingling
with her blood, must be transmitted to
her child and keep him quiet by max
ing him drunk. This, "that the very
mold which that child is to preserve
for the rest of its life is being con-
structed out of blood that is alcoholized,
out of condition of the system in
which intOxication prevails for the first
twelve months of its life." This is the
statement of DR.. Edmunds, of London,
uttered in Association Hall N. Y, in
an address to ladies.
Not long ago a rumor was atlOat that
a lady, wife of clergyman and. presi-
dent of wOman's Temperance Union,
was addicted to intemperance. Her
friends indignantly refused to believe it,
but were finally convinced that occa-
sion for the scandal did really exist in
the fact that in acute attacks Of disease
she was accustomed to seek relief in
alcoholic remedies even to actual intox-
ication. A similar scandal has attach
ed to clergymen, and it has been life
long blight to reputation and useful
ness.
We read in the Golden Legend that
Lucifer, in the guise of physician,
prescribed for the healing OF Prince
Henry the sacrifice of holy maiden's
life. This wild dream of the poet has
had its counterpart in real life. A wife,
by years of patient struggle and hope
full sympathy succeeded. in rescuing her
inebriate husband. After a period of
soberiety and health he was stricken
by disease. Alcoholic stimulants were
prescribed and reluctantly given, but
in few months he died sober man.
After his death, in the reaction that
came to his widow, she, commencing
with the remnant left in the bottle,
went on till she filled the drunkard's
grave from which she had striyen
though so many years to save her hus-
band.
Pondering these things, we hold our
breath as we ask, Who is safe in the
presence of this subtle power? For
proves the medicinal use of
alcohol to be inseparable from the dan
ger of excess on.the part of the patient.
This fact is being recognized more and
more by thoughtful physicians. In
1872 an earnest appeal, signed by two
hundred and sixty-six distinguished
physicians and surgeons engaged in
hospital practice in Great Britain, was
made to the medical profession at large,
to be so cautious in prescribing alcohol
les as to avoid the appearance of sane
tioning their excessive or habitual
dietetic use. On the other hand, DR..
Anstie strangely ignores this danger in
saying; "It seems as if alcohol were
to be the medicine Of those
ailments which are engendered of the
necessary everyday evils of civilized
life, and has therefore been made at
tractive to the Senses" This remark,
so plausible, stands forth, in the light
of experience, self-contradiction, an
against the use of remedy
so attractive, so fnsidiOus. Again, it is
liable to abuse, and is constantly
abused, in the hands of the practitioner
himself.