Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-07-21

auce fauatics;' hence, for the benefit
of ali such, and also that all may know
In what extent this evil, with all it's
other curses on the human family,
predisposes the system TO disease aud
routagion. and furnishes the first aud
surest fatal victims to an epidemic Of
cholera, every case concentrating the
atmosphere and spreading the poison,
until in time the air and water be-
came so polluted that the healthy and
prudent and temperate cannot resist
| IL. we will give the testimony of those
who have had means Of observation.
| Prof. Liebig says that mo greater
mistake could be made by any one
than TO use Intoxicating drinks of any
kind. or of any quantity, with the ex-
pectation that they will prevent chol-
era or any disease
Mr.. Charles Everett says: II have
| vet to learn of the recovery in single
instance of an Incorporate man."
| This was in the Portland district,
when the deaths averaged one per
cent. of the whole population per day.
DIR. MISSY says: Brandy was said
ut one time to prevent cholera, but ex-
periencc has fully demonstrated that
| it is conductor and promoter of that
| disease
DIR. Adams, professor of the Institute
| of Medicine in the Anderson Cniver-
! sity of Glasgow, made classification
of two hundred and twenty-five chol-
era patients treated by him, of whom
l9l per cent. only were of temperate
habits. OF those Contemporaries habits
9l4 per cent. died. Says he: II have
found the use of alcoholic drinks to be
a great predisposing cause OF malig-
nant cholera. So strong Is my opinion
on this point that were / one of the
authorities and had the power would
placard every spirit-shop with these
words: Cholera sold here. In New
castle, England, in 1S4S. in one street
parallel with the river Tyne, it swept
off almost every drunkard from one
end of the street to the other"
The Rev. DIR. Lee, of st. Luke's
church, Rochester, New York, speak
ing in sermon of five hundred who
were swept away by the cholera, said:
"Most of the adults were victims of
intemperance. On one occasion re-
monstrated with the only persons, four
in number, who constituted the COM
pany at the grave, all of whom We're
partially intoxicated, and within
three days theyt had all died of chol-
era and were in their graves near the
spotiwhere had forewarned them OF
their dangern Not from contagion,
but the depressing effect of liquor
upon the system, for as the same au-
thority says: "The effects of alcohol
les reduces the temperature OF the
body, and instead of stimulating, they
narcotize and reduce the life forces,
and predispose the system to all kinds
of disease
Total abstinence prevents cholera.
From statistics of cholera in Albany
in 1882, the fatal cases of persons over
sixteen years of age were as follows
Incorporate, lao; free drinkers, fifty
| five; moderate drinkers, thirty-one;
strictly temperate, five; members OF
temperance societies, two; idiot, one;
unknown, two. Total, 1888.
In New York, Of 5000 members Of
temperance societies, only two died.
In New Orleans the deaths from
cholera was fifteen per 1000 OF the
population, while among the Sons OF
, Temperance only two and a half III q
: 900.
, In the winter of 1850, when the
cholera was in Edinburgh. not Il single
( tetotaler was attacked with 1t. Anc
in Paisley, Scotland, with 60,063 popu
: lation, and 337 cases of cholera, or ont
to every 1881 of the population, among
total abstainers only one died out o
1000. The same difference in favor o
: total abstainers holds good in Indi,
and other countries; and any physi
elan can testify that the history o
7 cholera, as recorded in his medica
library, establishes the fact that thu
L users Of alcoholic drinks are the frs
l and the surest fatal cases Of cholera.
4 In view of these facts, what shoulc
e be the subject of quarantine? Shall
. the well and the sick be quarantinet
: inside the cities and food outside
4 with all the horrible sufferngs o
4 famine added to sdisease, as was TIN
| result of quarantine in one ofour owl
o cities last summer, is now the result
in Egypt, and is liable to be the fate o
: any city here when cholera reaches on
country?
t Is there not reason, an imperativ
l. requisition, in view of the contamina
v ting effect of Intoxicating liquors II
: the threatened epidemic, added to al
It their other dire evils. that they becom
h the object of quarantine and be pro
/ hibted? And there is no time to b
| lost to prevent their disastrous effects
l. for when the disease is upon us, 1T
e too late for the system to rally from
l. their effects, or then to discontinue
p their use without increasing the dan
h ger. n. A. ID.