Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1884-01-03
THE EFFECT OF ALCOHOLIC
DRINKS.
srMULANTs AND NARCOTICS Upon TNE
HUMAN MIND AND BODY.

srMULANTs AND NARCOTICS UPON TIM
HUMAN MIND AND BODY.
Tbs following extract from the
speech of Prof. Estabr before the
State Teachers Association at Lansing
requires no comment:
"This subject is of especial import
ancs at this time. inasmuch as the last
legislature passed the following:
Chapter 3, Section 15-The district
board shall specify the studies to be
+. rsued in the district. Provided al
ways that provision shall be made for
instructing all pupils in every school in
physiology and hygiene, with special
reference to the effects of alcoholic
drinks, stiniulants and narcotics gen
orally upon the human system. Pro-
vided further, That the text books
used i'm giving the foregoing instruc-
tions shall have received tho joint ap-
proval of the State Board of Eduea-
ton and the State Board of Health.
The speaker said the character of al.
90 :, ], in ;ts fata' influences upon 10 ay,
mind and morals, should be thorough
ly understood by every teacher.
1t has been demonstrated over and
over again that alcohol is "a poison -
Injected into the veins it produces
death, by coagulatins the albumen Of
the blood.
To this fact the familiar terms Of
universal speech bear witness. When
psrons have taken sufficient alcohol
10 affect them they are said To he in
tsricnted. which literally riesns poi
soned. The word intoxicated is dcriv-
I'd from the word toxicon. the Greek
for poison. Toxicoiogy treats of poi
SOILS and their effects. lntoXication
| signifies the state or cond ton Of being
| poisoned.
Sir Ashley Cooper said:
Il never suft ardent ,pirits in my
house, thinking them TO be evil spirits
and IL the poor could witness the white
| livers, the dropsies, the shattered nerv'
GUS systems which have seen, az the
con sequences of drinking, they would
be aware that spirits and poisons are
| synonomous T. rinS."
The origin nf aicciiol is fully ascor
tanned and may be easily learned and
taught in our public schools.
1t never occurs in nature Except "a
the results of fermentation
II has one origin, whatever form II
may assume. 1t ;rises from the de
struction of sugar and hos no otheI
source.
1t is not product of vegetable
growth, like all the substances which
constitute the food of man.
II has the same origin ~ those fata
and malignant exhalations which con
stitute the genius of pestilence-tli'
death and putrifaction of organic IN at
ter. Carbonic acid gas, ore of th'
most fatal and prompt Of all poisons
is brought into the world Mt the same
birth with alcohol. Our youth shoult
be taught that the use of alcoholic liq
nors shortens life. No fact il bette
established DIR. Willard Parker, o
New York, shows from most CAREFUL.
prepared statistics, that for every Il
temperate persons who die between tn
age of 20 and 80 years, 81 intemperat
persons die. Hence ii appears tha
the mortality of liquor-users is 500 pc
cent greater than that of abstainers.
The London life insurance societ
divides it's risks into two classes, at
stainers and moderate drinkers, with
different table of mortality for each.
Our children should be taught tina
total abstinence is the only safeguar
against the Iran eful effects and fats
consequences of drunkenness.
At the close of the address ths teacl
ers held social reunion, which laste
till 10 o'clock.