The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-04-19


drunkenness and debauchery which are
ever ready to spring into life and acliv-
ity, whenever circumstances are at all
favorable for their development, is alco-
hol and other still more destructive
poisons used as remedial agents. In
the treatment of disease by all classes
of physicians Except the Physio-medi-
cal, which is, in fact, the only temper
ancs society in the land), alcoholic
liquor is one Of the most constantly
used remedies as a stimulant. It's use
use is sanctioned and authorized by the
highest medical authority in the poison
giving schools, in every form of disease
IN which stimuiant is indicated, and
this is the remedy prescribed alone or
combined in all low fevefs. The vast
amount of this liquid fire used in this
way would astonish the uainitiated
All this under the genteel, very honor.
able and respectable nsne of medicine,
ranctioned and ordered by men repre-
senting noble profession, to whom
society locks for wisdom and intrusts
the sacred interests of health. Thence
as an immediate and direct cause of
lntemperance the practice of the modi-
cal profession pre-eminently ranks first
and foremost. and as remote or fun
damensal cause of .intemperance, all
other causes are as drop of water to
the great ocean compared to this one.
However extravagant or hypersolicsl
this assertion may seem to many the
facts fully justify and sustain the asser-
ton, which make with no fear of sue.
cessful contradiction.
The embryonal or formative clement
of every tissue of the body consists of
mlAute mass of bieplasm. When in
the forces of development there exists
formed material, will occupy the cen
trail area and gets the name of ssnucle-
us" and s'nucleolus." These cells OF
tissue elements are joined together in
different ways, thus making up the va
rious tissues Of the body. These It's
sues are woven together in various
ways and fora the different structures,
and these structures in turn make up
the different organs and systems Of or
gans and finally the whele corporeal
frame. Thus the entire organism, with
all its millions of intricate and complex
parts, is made up Of bloplasm and
formed into microscopic cells. Bic
plasm is semi-fuid mass, it's pabulem
is the blood, in it resides life force or
vitality; by its agency every kind OF
living thing is made, and without it, as
far as is known, no living thing ever
has been, or ever can be made. With.
out it the tissues could not grow and
could not be repaired if injured. From
these biological facts may be inferred
the important part this living semi
fluid substance plays in the animal
economy, and also the farther very i'm
portant fact that the healthy integrity
of any and all the structures Of the
body depend upon the normal condition
Of this vitalizing product of life force
Now as life force can only manifest
itself upon definite and specific COM
pound, called bioplasm, pretoplasm
etc, and as the intellectual faculties
are but conscious expression of the life
:. force of the bioplasm Of the cerebrum
or intellectual part of the brain, it fol-
| lows that any subsistence or thing thai
tends to diminish, stunt or degrade tht
physical organization, especially those
things which tend to kill or otherwis'
diminish the quantity, or quality, o.
vital activity of the brain bioplatm
muss tend to diminish, dwarf and de-
grade the intellectual powers of man
Hence the fact that alcohol, opium
chloral, belladenna, and the entire host
of brain poisons degrade men morally
spiritually, mentally and physically
that they lead men only to seek fol
those things that minister to his de-
praved appetite and passions, to CRAFTY
his lusts and carnal desires Under
the influence Of these abominable pei
: sons the cerebral bloplasts are arrested
in their growth and multiplication, ars
diminished in size and hampered ir
function, are much less freely supplied
with pabulem, grow and form more
slowly, ara predisposed to fatty, granu
lar degeneration, there is less vita
force, soul, spirit, this immortal part
cannot expand, is dwarfed, stuntsd and
will scarcely, if ever, rise above the
plane of his earthly and sensual sur
roundings, above the lusts Of the flesh
These constitute the pleasures of his
soul and there can be no JOY, peace ol
| hauniness when denriyel of flese