The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-05-09
A TIMELY WARNING.


ing Is a Powerfully PredisposinG Cause
of Cholera Where That Epidemic is
PrevaIent-COmparative 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-calied mod
crate drinkers.
The Messenger des Chanl5res gives
the following extract from letter
of q Warsaw physician: 1T is a
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 eXcefs 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 ,olera.
Prof. Macintosh, of Edinburgh, who
ranks high in the medical profession,
and who was physician to an extensive
cholera hospital, states that drHnkards
were the persons generally attacked.
In contrasting the eau cS predi,posing
to cholera he also remarks: And above
all, the dissipated, particularly those
addicted to the habitual use of ardent
spirits. 1t has been computed that
| live-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 to invite
the cholera, and to render it incIrable
when it takes place.
DIR. Rhinelander, who visited Montreal
during the prevalence of cholera there,
in the summer of 1882, SAYS: That the
victims of the disease are incorporate
In that city, after there had been POO
cases of the malady, a 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.. SeweH, who visited the cholera
hospitals of New York, states that of
2OI cases in the Park Hospital there
were only six temperate persons. and
that these had recovered; while ~ of
the others had died when he wrote, and
that the facts were similar in all the
other hosp tails.
Mr.. Huber who saw 2,1GO perish in
twenty enc days, in one town OF Russia.
says: 1t is a most remarkable circum-
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,
ease; but those who, by daily use, de-
bilitate the tone of their sfomachs and
hillary organs, become easy victims to.
the cholera.
g. Hamilton Bell, F. r. c. s. f., in
his publication on cholera, says: Above
all, intoNication and d,ssipated habits
have been found, whenever the disease
prevailed, powerfully to predispcse to
cholera.
George X. Paterson, surgeon, Dun
dee, says: There can not be a doubt
held for moment on the subject. that
low and intemperate 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
nlng 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, Z. S, says: Upon boats
on the river the increase OF brandy
drinking, consequent upon the approach
OF the cholera, has been frighlhtl. and
the mortality on board of those vessels
has been terrible and unprecedented.
One boat lost is, another 1 !, and third
~ OF It's passengers and crew. Brandy
is not prophylactic in any case. TO
the temperate it is an actve-eXcitino
cause. 10 the drinker it is not advisa-
bic to drop of 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
tul scourge was raging in New Orleans,
the papers of that place discl Sc the
same fact. Among the hundreds that
were swept Off by the disease only two
were Sons of Temperance, and among
the 200 in the city, only three were
ttacked.-IriSh UOrld.
A MAN lowers himself. even if he
does get "high' on whisky Whitehall
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