The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1885-08-20


by putting it into the hands of a
nurse who abolished alcohol.
GIN AND wHIsKEY sLINGs.
The giving of gin sling or whiskey
sling to infants for "cOlic" is very
common. The immediate effect
may be to dislodge aportion ofwind
from the stomach, but at the same
time it provokes inflammation and
indigestion and creates fatulency.
Instead of administering alcoholic
remidies, the child should be re-
lieved by rubbing, or by careful
use of mild, warm tea of sage, mint
or other herb.
An infant who is dosed with al
cOhOl soon shows decided taste for
the stimulant, relishes it, cries after
it; is restless when deprired of its
dram. Thus in children, fatal
thirst for strong drink may be early
developed. But not only may the
alcohol mania be induced in our
baby by feeding it with alcoholic
potions, and by using alcohOls for
baths or congresses, but even much
more dangerously by the medium
of the mother or wet-nurse.
A MOST ERRONEOUS SUPERSTITION.
Many women who are nursing an
infant imagine that they must "keep
up their strength and increase the
flow Of Tactical fluid by frequent
use of beer, porter, ale, wine or tod
dy." Statistics of reformatOries and
homes for dipsomaniacs show that
as high as half the cases Of drunk
enness among woman arise from
this baneful practice Of nursing
mothers. 1t is well known that the
food and drink of the nurse pass
quickly into the milk, so that medi-
cines or unhealthy articles of diet
havoan effect on the nursing, even
before the nurse is affected. When
nurses use malt, alcoholic or fer.
naented liquors, these enter very
quickly into the system ofthe child.
The babe, partaking of alcohOlized
milk, falls heavily asleep-in other
words, is drunk-and its health,
its perspiration, its symptoms, intli-
cate drunkenness. From the con.
slant presence of this destructive
unnatural element in its food, the
child of the drinking mother has
not over three or four chances out
of ten for its life. There is an enOr.
nous percentage of infant naortali'
ty among the babes nursed pr per-
sons UhO use alcoholic or matted
liquors. Not only this, but, as ha'
been amply proved, the vitiated
milk awakes an abnormal craving
in the infant. 1t shows horrible
preference for the alcoholic susie
nance, receives it with avidity, ant
rejects with cries unadulterateC
natural food. Shocking as 1t ap
pears, it is a plain statement of facts
BEWARE OF wET-NURsEs WHO
DRINK.
When a mother is so unfortunate
as to be obliged to seek wet-nurst
for the baby, she should remember
that a love of drink-dipsomania-
is even more likely to be transmit
ted to the child by the nurse, thar
tendency to scrofula, cancer, o.
other physical diseases. From the
drink-loving nurse the fatal inherit
ance of inebriety can come to thu
child of Incorporate parents. Among
the most heart-rending spectacles
have witnessed were the struggles
remorse, falls, shames, OF a giftet
young physician, child of a rigidly
temperate family, who had unhap
PLY committed his infancy to {
drunken wet-nurse. The love O
liquor grew with his years; it mad
dened him; he was at war will
himself; from his parents he hat
received temperate principles, ant
temperate examples and training
he loathed and despised alcOhOliza
ton; from his nurse he had re
ceived craving for drink and earl!
habituatiOn to alcohol; he lOnget
for it; the alcohol taste was a con
; Stunning fire within him, and in tn
frenzy of this state he was often OF
the verge of suicide. There was
, time when psychologists wOult
. have said, "The liquor passes quick
ly and entirely out of the system
it can be used with impunity by tn
child before the time when it
moral nature can be perverted b,
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