The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-01
A TIMELY WARNING.

~ tMELI WAnNtlNCs
Convincing Evidence That Liquor Drink
ing Is Powerfully Fredisposing Cause
of Cholera Where That Epidemic is
acknowledgements Safety of Tenn
perate People.
In view of the dreaded approach of
the cholera scourge to our shores per-
haps the following evidence on the
manner in which the use of spirits pre-
disposes the person using them to the
attacks of the dread disease may prove
a warning to even the so-called mod
crate drinkers.
The Messenger des ChanbreS gives
the following extract from a letter
of a Warsaw physician: cit is
positive fact that the cholera does
not seize on its victims at hazard, as
many say. This contagion up to the
present period has respected all persons
who lead a regular life and live in
healthy places, and has struck without
pity every man worn out by excess 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 iolera.
Prof. Macintosh, of Edinburgh, who
ranks high in the medical profession,
and who was physician to an extensive
cholera hospital, states that drunkards
were the persons generally attacked.
In contrasting tue eau es prediSposing
to cholera be also remarks: ''And above
all. the dissipated, particularly those
addicted to the habitual use of ardent
spirits. 1t has been computed that
fiye-sixths of all who have fallen by this
disease in England were t.;ken from
the ranks of the Incorporate and disso-
Lutte"
DR.. Bronson, of Montreal, says: The
habitual use of ardent spirits, in the
small est quantity, seldom fails to invite
the cholera, and to render it inc1rable
when it takes place.
Dr.. Rhlnelander, who visite Montreal
during the prevalence of cholera there,
in the summtr of 1882, says: That the
victims Of the disease arc incorporate
In that city, after there had been l, 200
cases of the malady, q Montr al journal
states: "that not drunkard who had
been attacked has recovered. 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
204 cases in the Park Hospital there
were only six temperate persons, and
that these had recovered; while 1872 of
the others had died when he wrote, and
that the facts were similar in all the
other hosp tails.
Mr.. Huber, who saw 2,160 perish in
twenty one days, in one town of Russia,
SAYS: 1t is most remarkable cireum-
stance that persons given to drink have
been swept away like flies. In Tiflis,
containing 10000 inhabitants, every
drunkard has fallen; all are dead, not
one remaining.
DR. Adams, of Dublin, affirms: Our
foreign reports testify that drunkards
are carried off at once by this dire dis
case; but those who, by daily use, de-
bilitate the tone of their stomachs and
hillary organs, become easy victims to
the cholera.
6. Hamilton Bell, F. r. c.. S. F., in
his publication on cholera, says: Above
all, intoxication and d;ssipated habits
have been found, whenever the disease
prevailed, powerfully to predispose TO
cholera.
George K. Paterson, surgeon, Dun
dee, says: There can not be doubt
held for moment on the subject. that
low and Incorporate 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.
DR.. Mussey, q. S., says: Upon boats
on the river the increase of brandy
drinking, consequent upon the approach
of the cholera, has been frightflIl, and
the mortality on board OF those vessels
has been terrible and unprecedented.
One boat lost 40. another AZ, and third
SO of its passengers and crew. Brandy
is not a prophylactic in any case. To
the temperate it is an actiye-exciting
cause. To the drinkcr it is not advisa-
BILE to drop oft the use suddenly; but the
quantity should be diminished rather
than increased. In 1882, in Albany,
where 1856 cases of cholera occurred in
a community OF $4,000 inha bitants, one
third of whom were members OF the
Temperance societies. only two of the
members died. Last winter this dread
full scourge vas raging in New Orleans,
the papers Of that place disclose the
same fact Among the hundreds that
were swept off by the disease only two
were Sons Of Temperance. and among
the 1900 in the city. only three were
attacked. Irish World