The Red Cloud chief., 1884-03-14
. WARNING TO MODERATE DRINK.
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ciety, and yet is a moderate user of al
cohOl. is nevertheless laying up for
himself a quantity of material which
ought not to remain in his system. and
which is interfering with the healthy
performance of some one or more func-
tons. 1t is sufficient to deprive him
of his right to the retention Of his facul-
ties in his old age, as well as leading to
blocks in the circulation through the
affected organs, which bring on disease
at disagreeable and incOnvenient times.
Healthy physiological change is inter-
fered with, and pathological change is
established, for L hold that every cell
which does not freely interchange the
debris which is the result of its ordinary
action, and which keeps that debris
back, or sends it out only half altered,
is commencing a pathological state
which is disease. The line between the
two conditions is somewhere. / con-
tend that it commences rs soon as the
interference with cell action is greater
than the power of repair, and a very
moderate dose of alcohol daily will not
be long in most instances before it COM
mences a pathological change m
where. But it is not only with cell
action, as evidenced by altered endos-
nose, that alcohol interferes with nu-
triton. Its action is shown in its in
fluence upon the gastric juice; it pre-
cipitates the peptOnes which are neces-
sary for digestion, renders them in
active, and deprives the stomach of q
portion of its digestive power. 1t is
true that its psralyzing influence on the
blood vessels gorges the mucous MEM
brane with more blood. and leads to a
fresh secretion of gastric juice, and
with it more of the peptones, but surely
it a not be the right course to dam
age an organ for the purpose of in
.creasing its action. To longest its
vessels must be q damage which if
.persevered in will certainly lead
to dyspepsia, and all its concOmitants,
instead OF helping the digestive power.
1t may be right for a special purpose
do this, but to continue t. do it is to
whip the tired horse too long. But it
not only precipitates the peptOnes OF
the stomach, but it coagulates the al
bumen of the food, rendering it less di-
gestible; it alters the fibrine so that the
most important ingredients for the pro-
duction of force are made less capable
of assimilation; and yet, in spite of
these manifest disadvantages, alcoholic
liquors continue to be used BY sensible
men, and even by men highly educated
in physiological knowledge, but who
decline ~ carry out physiological and
facts to their legitimate
They are only in the same
category as a large mass of so-called
Christians. they forget the precepts of
our faith when they see that those pre-
cepts are antagOnistic to their worldly
interest; or else they have never
thought seriously upon the teachings
of physiology in connection with the
daily use of alcoholic liquors. Just as
sO-called Christians have never recog-
nized the antagonism of a faith in the
with their daily habits of life.
They either do not know or they do not
recognize the fact that they are level
ing downward their powers of life. that
they are reducing them to a lower
capacity for publication, OF to a dimin-
shed ability to resist evil influences.
They say that liquor does them good,
and that they feel the better for its use.
The very confession that they feel all
the better for it shows that there il q
in their system which is already
bearing fruit. To those / would say
most earnestly: Face the mischief.
The natural tendency which is inherent
N the human economy to revert to
health should be allowed full sway.
Let the defective organ get up to the
evel of the rest of the body. and do
not bring all down to the Lowell of the
weak one.
When men or women aver that alcO-
is q necessity to them. and that they
ret on better with it than without it,
hey are using it for the purpose of ex-
the danger signal which
Nature is exhibiting. This is revealed
them by the feeling which arises
when they do not take il. This is q
warning that they are damaged already.
md that it is high time for them to
make an effort to themselves. /
I'm satisfied by an experience which has
been too limited, either by time
numbers, that no possible evil to
heir boslily health will eve arise from
lie action, if it be guided by common
and good Judgment.
The human body is not unlike to q
.reat city. There are sewers, furnaces,
Tres and water supply; chimneys, roads
nd deposits of fuel and food. If the
Icvs.rs are allowed to choke up, if the
are not cleansed, if the CHM