The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-08-02
THE VOICE OF SCIENCE.

VIE WINE VT SSt6tNS6s
Conclusions Of Men Of Observation and
Experience, rs Compiled by the "XvIth
Amendment"
l have acted on the principle of total
abstinence from all alcoholic liquors
during more than twenty years. My
opinion is that the most severe labors
~ privations may be undergone with
out alcoholic stimulants. DR.. Licing-
st0ne.
We are of the opinion that the use
of alcoholic liquors as beverage is
productive of large amount of phys
zeal and mental disease; that it entails
diseased appetites and enfecblcd con-
stitution upon offspring; and that ID is
the cause of large percentage Of
the crime and pauperism of our large
cities and country. -Medical Associa-
tom Of The United States, Detroit, 1874.
Most of the leading manufacturers
have made strictly temperate habits
an indispensable prerequisite to en-
ploymcnt, and the least departure
therefrom sufficient prcteXt for i'm
mediate dismissal. What
our Legislatures permit, that our man
ufacturing and industrial institutions,
in order to protect themselves from
ruin, are compelled to positively pro.
hibited.-A. N. Collins, NJ d.
Alcohol can not, in any sense, be
considered necessity for the main.
tenance OF healthy life. 1t is not q
food in any true and practical sense OF
that term. Labor of the sevcrest kind,
mental and bodily, can be carried on
without it, and the steadiest and bes,
work is best done without it.--British
Medical Temperance association in
1880.
am convinced that much larger
amount of mental and bodily labor can
be performed by those who abstain
altogether from alcoholic drinks---a
fact established by the recent expert.
nfents in casting the lancaster shot in
Wo0lwich Arsenal, where none could
endure the requisite fatigue but tota
abstainers. DR.. Conquest.
Your memorialists have no doub
that the rumor of a plague, or an,
other Presidential disorder which nigh
sweep away thousands of their fellow
citizen, would produce the most vigor.
Gus and effective measures in our Gov
eminent to prevent or subdue it. You
memOrialists can sre no just cause VIII !,
the more certain and extensive rava
ages of distilled spirits upon life shouic
not be guarded against with correspond
ing vigilance and eXertion by the pres
ent rulers of the United States. Col
lege OF Physicians of Philadelphia TO Con
gress, in 1890.
We can prove with mathematical
certainty that as much -four as can liz
on the point Of a table knife is more
nutritious thar eight quarts OF the bes
Bavarian beer; that person who il
able daily to consume that amount o.
beer. obtains from it in whole year
in the most favorable case, exactly thu
amount Of nutri,ive constituent which
is contained in five pound loaf. or il
throc pounds of flesh.--Baron Liebig
Sir Ashley Cooper. referring to hi
experience in Guys Hospital. declared
that the beer-drinkers from the Londol
breweries, though presenting the ap
pearance of the most rugged health
were the most incapable of all CLASSES
to resist disease that trifling injurie
among them were liable to lead to tn,
most serious consequences, and that 81
prone were they to succumb to diseas
that they would sometimes die from
gangrcnc in wounds as trifling as tn
scratch of q pin. Pacific Medical jour
nal.
have the evidence Of my own per
sonal experience, and the experience
of the enormous numbers of peopl
who pass before me every year; and
state that alcohol is not a helper c
work, but certain hinderer of work
and every man who comes to tn
front of q profession in London
marked by this one characteristic, tbs
the more busy he gets, the less in shap
of alcohol he takes: and his excuse i,
81 am sorry, but | can not take il an
do my work. DR.. 4iadretc Clark, on
Of the physicians 10 her Majesty, u
Queen.
protest against the notion so pr,
valent and SO industriously urged. this
beer is harmless, and desirable sui
stitute for the more concentrate
liquors. What beer may be, and wins
it may do in other countries and cl
mates, | do not know from obscrv;
ton. That in this country and climai
its use is an evil only less that the us
Of whisky, if less on the whole. an
that its effect If only longer delayed
not so Immediately and obviously BAG
its incidents. not SO repulsiye. but d.
,tructive in the end. Ihave seen abur
liant proof. Colonel Greene, Preside,
'onn. Mutual Life ms. Co.
Careful observation leaves littl
doubt that moderate dose Of beer 9
wine would in most eases at one
diminish the maximum weight whic
a healthy person could lift. Ment;
| ,cu.onasa accuracy of norcopt;on an