The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-07-16
DISEASE AND ALCOHOL.

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DISEASE AND ALCOHOL.
Positive Statements by Experiences Au~
thorities Worthy of Credence.
IconsiderI shall do more in curing dis
ease and preventing disease in one year
by prescribing total abstinence than L
could do in the ordinary course of am
extensive practice of one hundred
years.-Dr. Higginbottom, an Eminent
Surgeon of Nottingham.
1t is no figure of speech, but the liz.
eral truth, that hundreds of neuralgia,
hysterie and epileptic patients have been
driven into drunkenness or lunacy. or
both, by the endless folly of advisers,
who bad no better reason for the pre-
scription of large doses Of alcohol than
the fact that these diseases are attended
with nervous weakness. 1t
is grave scandal and mischief that
medical men should endanger in this
serious way the power of moral resist
ance of women and other weak per-
sons.-Dr. James q. WGkley, fn the
London Lancet
All kinds of ardent spirits and other
strong stimulants are not only not uses
full in preventing cholera, but dispose
to its attack.-Bostom Board Of HeGIth.
1882.
ReSolUed, That the vending of ardent
spirits, in whatever quantity, be con-
sidered nuisance-and as such is
hereby directed to be discontinued for.
the space of ninety days from this date
By order of the Board OF Health.
James Ldrmed, Sec. Passed in Wash
;1lgton, D. c., 1892, on account of the
prevalence Of the cholera.
All Spirit-drinkers will be the first
victims of the cholera.-Notsce dis
played By the authorities Of London i'E
1882.
Cholera has stood up here (Montre-
all, as it has everywhere, the advocate
of temperance. 1t has pleaded most
eloquently and with tremendous effect
The disease has searched the haunts of
the drunkard and has seldom left them
without bearing away its victims.
Even moderate drinkers have been but
a little better off. Ardent spirits in
any shape and in any quantity have
been highly detrimental. There seems
to be a natural affinity between the
cholera and ardent spirits. DR.. Bro1-
son, a0riting from Montreal, 1882.
We have a great horror of arsenic
and fifty other things; the fact is, all
these things are a mere bagatelle in re,
lation to the most direct, absolute, inn
mediate and certain poisonings which
are caused by alcohol. There are more
men killed, so far as I know English
statistics men poisoned by alcO-
hol-than are poisoned by all other
poisons put together.-JaS. EdnauHds,
II. d., London, Eng.
The V0lkStreuaad for August, 1854
states that out of nine hundred persons
who died in Rotterdam the preceding
year from cholera only three were alb
stainers. Judge Pitnaa1a.
/ have found the use of alcoholic
drinks to be the most powerful predis-
posing cause of malignant cholera
with which am acquainted. Were ]
one of the authorities, would placard
every spirit shop in town with large
bills containing the words: ''ChOlcrs
sold here DR.. 4. NJ adams, Profess
Sor Ofthe Institutes Of Medicine tis the
Andersonian University of Glasgow.
Alcoholism is widely prevalent, but
it is not popular to die a drunkaTd. Its
victims are hardly ever credited to il
unless they are poor and friendless--A
Eighth annual Report of Massachusetts
Board of Health.
| suppose that next to pulmonary
diseases, more persons come to their
death, either directly or Indirectly, bJ
alcoholism, than from any other cause.
Hundreds of men who die from liver
complaint and kidney troubles might
have been healthy men to-day if the3
had not poisoned their systems with
alcohol-Janaes w. AIerander, Uice.
president of The Equitable Life E1esur.
Gnce Company, Nes0 York.
In hospitals where the largest
amount of alcohol is used, there is the
greatest percentage of deaths.-Dr.
King, Of the Philosophical SOciety o.
Hull, Eng.
l have amply tried both ways. !
gave alcohol in my practice for twenty
years, and have now practiced without
III GhlS ldSC thirty years Of more. NY
experience is that acute disease is mors
readily cured without it. and chronic
disease much more manageable
John HigginbOtt0m, 2. r. S.
AS to the general use of alcohol 10
disease, every form of disease would
be better treated without alcohol than
with it.-Dr. Benz. w. Richardson, r.
r. S.
Alcohol may be wholly dispensed
with without injury to the sick, every
intelligent physician being able to sup.
ply its place with other remedies Of
equal, if not of greater, value.-Dr. N.
S. DaviS, Chicago; DR.. Stephen Smith,
NeW York; DR.. James EdmstpdS. Lon
don, and many other eminent men IN
the profession. >