The Red Cloud chief., 1885-05-15
WHISKY AND DISEASE.

WHISKY AND DISEASE.
Convincing Evidence That Drink.
ing IL - PowerfuiIy Predisposing Cause
NJ Cholera Where That Epidemic r.
PrevaIent-Comparstive safety u Tenn
Per.te People.
In view OF the dreadcd approach Of
the cholera scourge To our shores per-
haps the following evidence on the
manner IN which the use of spirits pre-
dlsposes the person using them TO the
attacks Of the drcal disease may prove
a warning to even the sO-called mod
crate drinkers.
The Messenger DIES CHambres gives
The following extract from a letter
OF a Warsaw physician: lit is "A
positive fact that the cholera does
not seize on its victims ut hazard. as
many saw. This contagion up - the
present period has respected all persons
who lead a regu!ar life and live in
healthy places, and has struck without
pity every man worn out by q and
weakened by dissipation. 1t has been
ascertained that out Of every hundred
individuals who die Of this disease
ninety are in the habit of drinking ar
dent spirits to excess. Women rarely
addict themselves to strong liquors.
and. accordingly. few of them are at
tackled by the C Iolera."
Prof Maekint0sh. of Edinburgh, who
ranks high in the medical profession.
and who was physician to IN extensive
cholera hospital. states that drunkards
were the persons generally attacked.
In contrasting the causes p~redisposing
to cholera be also remarks: And above
all. the dissiPated. particularly those
addicted TO the habitual Use Of ardent
spirits. Ii has been computed that
fi%ve-sixths of all who have fallen by this
disease in England were taken from
the ranks of the incorporate and disso-
Lutte"
Dr. Bronson. Of Montreal. says: The
habitual use of ardent spirits. IN the
smallest quantity. seldom fails t. invite
the cholera, and To render it incurable
when it takes place.
DIR. R~hinelander. who visited Montreal
daring the prevalence of cholera there.
in the summer of 1882. says: That the
victims of the disease ar, incorporate.
In that city. after there had been LOO
cases of the malady, a MonirrRl journal
states: "that not adrunksrd who had
been attacked has rccoIered. and al
most all the victims have At least been
moderate drinkers"
Dr. Sewel!. who visited the 'cholera
hospitals of New York. states that Of
2O4 cases in the Park Hospital there
were only six temperate persons. and
that these had recovered; while l22 of
the others had died when he wrote. and
that the facts were similar In all the
other hospitals.
Nj. Huber, who saw :.16O perish in
twenty one days, in one town Of Russia,
SAYS: 1t is q most remarkable circum-
stance that persons given TO drink have
been swept away like flies. In Tifis.
containing 10000 inhabitants. every
drunkard has fallen; all are dead. not
one remaining.
Dr. Adams. Of Dublin, 'affirms: Our
foreign reports testify that druakards
are carried off at once by this di:e dis
ease; but those who. by daily use. de-
bilitate the tone of their s'omschs and
hillary organs. become easy victims to
the cholera.
G.. Hamilton Bell, F. X. C. S. F.. in
his publication on cholera. says: Above
all. intoxication ana dissipated hsbits
have been found. ~henever the disease
prevailed. powerfully to predispose 10
cholera.
George h. Paterson. surgeon. Dun
Gee, SAYS: There can not be y doubt
held for a moment Oh the subject. that
low and intcmpcrat. habits are strong
inducements in favor of the disease at
| any time, but far more to an epidemic
| that is prevalent. For example: in
Dundee. more individuals. on an aver
age. have been attacked in the begin
! ming of the week. and this has been as
cribed. with much apparent truth. TO
the drinking habits and Irregular modes
of living of such on the previous Satur-
day night
fr. Mussey. U. s. Says: Upon boats
on the river the increase of brandy
drinking. consequent upon the approach
| of the cholera. has been frightful. and
| the mortality ON board OF those vessels
has been terrible and unprecedented.
| One boat lost IS. another ~, and a third
80 of its passengers and crew. Brandy
is nos a prophylactic in any case. To
the temperate it is al actiSe-exciting
cause. To the drinkcr it il not advisa-
bic to drop "a the use suddenly; but the
quantity should BE- diminished rather
than increased. In 1852, IA Albany.
where $50 cases Of cholera occurred in
a community of 26. 600 inhsbitacts. one
third of whom were members OF the
Temperance societies. only two of the
members died. Last winter this dread
full scourse WAS raging in New Orleans.
the papers of that place disei Sc the
same fact Among the hundreds that
were swept of by the disease only two
were Sons Of Temperance. and among
the 1. 200 in the city. only three vere
a;tacked.-hiSA World.
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