The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1882-12-20


solid or liquid than is needed to sup
ply that waste, unlessit be so irrita-
ting that iE is ut once rejected, 1t Is
digested as well as the overwOrk
thus imposed on the digestive organs
will permit. is absorbed into the,
blood, and so much only as is needed
for repair In assimilated, that is, con-
verted into the various tissues and
fluids of the body; and the rest re-
mains. unused, decomposing foreign
matter, sn irritating poison, which
the secretory system IL overworked
in the attempt TO eliminate, but
which il cannot eliminate quickly
enough 10 prevent all mischief; so
that with continued indulgence,
however moderate, above the point
OF real necessity, there is going on
more or less gradual change OF
structure in organs and blood yes
sells, steady if slow degeneration
the tissue of these Overworked
organs is being continually depraved
by this poison, and at last the
strength of some one becomes in
adequate TO its task, it shows weak
ness and disease, its work is only
partly performed, the poison re
mains uneliminated the Other or
gans also undergoing depraved
change, are increasingly overwork-
ed, and there is that continual and
distressing struggle which nature
always bravely makes TO maintain
her work against all discourage
ments and obstacles, until some one
or more organs give way wholly and
the machine collapses.
Apart from those cases where
from disease or shock, there is need
of a whip TO the vital organs TO
make them pull through an emer-
geney, the only legitimate use Of
alcohol is as a food, a rebuilder OF
blood cells, bone and tissue. Its
actual utility and limitations as
food have been by no means fully
demonstrated. In certain cases it
has undoubtedly its peculiar value;
but there is also 20 doubt that for
most persons at most times il has
no such utility. In the vast majority
of cases we have to deal with its
use, not as n true food and strictly
limited in quality to its value as
such, but as a mere indulgence,
where the undigested, unassimilated
alcohol is left in the blood as an acid
poison and is put i'm by successive
induigences faster than il can be cast
out by the excrctOry organs.
m Unfortunately for mankind tie
operation of this cause is slow and
insidious; It's phenomena are usually |
very obvious or striking in the case
of moderate drinking. The de
velopment of effect from cause is
very gradual and is disguised by the
Intervention of many secondary and
apparent causes, such rs colds, OK
posture, shock or any over draft on
the vital powers, which seem easily
To account for all the mischief and
render il needless To inquire fart her
back. The nearest apparent cause
IS accepted very easily by friends
and neighbors as the only one. In
many cases they and even the vic
Inn himself, do not suspect the truth.
Dr. suspccting it, thrust IL aside As
90 painful for an instant's thought
In many cases inquiry is painful,
iifficult and apparently proftless,
md against outside inquiry, pride,
and interest rise in oppe-
itiOn.
1t il Of such cases that our records
re all too full, startlingly full; and
My from their study does the ex-
ent aud certainty of evil results be-
ONE apparent in any degree APP
the truth. But here is
he one grand and impressive fact,
hat in scarcely q case where there
as been any, however moderate, .
dbludI use of intoxicating drinks
Oes that fact fail, on due examina-
ion, TO make itself clearly manifest
D the cause and mode OF death.
ecret and slow and yelled as it may
70, il Stays in it's own fashion, and
D the experienced and watchful eve
host surely betrays its characters
&c. The same is true of the man
those drinking consist mainly in
Ding on sprees.
From the same standpoint do
rotest against the notion so pre-
alent aud so industriously urged, =
hat eer is harmless and desirable
nbstitute for the more concentrated
quors. What beer may be and
that it may do in other countries
nd climates / do not know from
That in this country
nd climate its use is an evil only
SIS than the use of whisky, if. less G
n the whole, that its effect is only J
niger delayed, not so Immediately
nd obviously bad, its incidents not e
, repulsive, but destructive in the
nd, have seen abundant proof
In one of our largest cities con-
lining great population of beer :,
| had occasion to note the II
eaths among large group of per- \
ms whose habits in their own eyes
nd in those of their friends and
physicians, were temperate; but
ley were habitual users of beer.
hen the observation began they
ere npOn the average something
lder middle age, and they were of
'urse selected lives. For two or -
rec years there was nothing very "
markable to be noted among this e.
CUP. Presently death began to /
rike il; and until it had dwindled
a fraction of it's original proper
ms the mortality in it was as
unding in extent and still more
markAble in the manifest identit, q
cause and mode. There was no q
it; the history was al
,st invariable; robust, apparent {.
oIfh f,,l1 .,,u..la, an fafr. nutci1o