The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-07-31
THE VOICE OF SCIENCE.

THE VOICE OF SCIENCE.
Conclusions of Men of Observation and
Experience, as 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
or privations may be undergone with
out alcoholic stimulants.-Dr. LiUtng-
stone.
We are of the opinion that the use
of alcoholic liquors as a beverage is
productive of large amount of phys
ical and mental disease; that it entails
diseased appetites and enfeebled con-
stitution upon offspring; and that it is
the cause of large percentage of
the crime and pauperism of our large
cities and country Medical ASSocia-
ton Of the United States, Detroit, 1874.
Most of the leading manufacturers
have made strictly temperate habits
an indispensable prerequisite to en-
ployment, and the least departure
therefrom sufficient pretext 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.-4. N. C0!ElnS, " D.
Alcohol can not, in any sense, be
considered a necessity for the main
tenance of healthy life. 1t is not a
food in any true and practical sense of
that term. Labor of the severest kind,
mental and bodily, can be carried on
without it, and the steadiest and best
work is best done without it.-BritiSh
Medical Temperance association in
1850.
am convinced that a 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
ments in casting the Lancaster shot in
Woolwich Arsenal, where none could
endure the requisite fatigue but total
abstainers. DR.. Conquest.
Your memorialists have no doubt
that the rumor of a plague, or any
other pestilential disorder which might
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. Your
memorialists can see no Just cause why
the more certain and extensive rava-
ages of distilled spirits upon life should
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-
gross, IN $780,
We can prove with mathematical
certainty that as much -four as cap lie
on the point of a table knife is NJ ore
nutritious thar eight quarts of the Fest
Bayarian beer; that a person wlus is
able daily to consume that amour. of
beer, obtains from it in q whole wear,
in the most favorable case, exactly the
amount of nutritive constituent which
is contained in five pound loaf, or in
three pounds of flesh.-BarOn Ltebiq.
Sir Ashley Cooper. referring to his
experience in Guys Hospital, declared
that the beer-drinkerS from the London
breweries, though presenting the APP
pearance OF the most rugged health,
were the most incapable of all classes
to resist disease-tEat trifiing injuries
among them were liable to lead to the
most serious consequences, and that so
prone were they to succumb to disease
that they would sometimes die from
gangrene in wounds as triiling as the
scratch of a pin. Pacific Medical Jour-
pdL
have the evidence of my own per-
sonal experience, and the experience
of the enormous numbers of people
who pass before me every year; and l
state that alcohol is not a helper of
work, but a certain hinderer of work;
and every man who comes to the
front of s. profession in London is
marked by this one characteristic, that
the more busy he gets. the less in shape
of alcohol he takes; and his excuse is:
81 am sorry, but | can not take it and
do my work. DIR. AtldrelO Clark, one
Of the physictaas 20 her MqieSty, the
Queen.
protest against the notion so pre-
valent and so industriously urged, that
beer is harmless, and desirable sub
stitute for the more concentrated
liquors. What beer may be, and what
it may do in other countries and eli
mates, do not know from observa-
.ion. That in this country and climate
Sts use is an evil only less that the use
of whisky, if less on the whole, and
that its effect if only longer delayed,
not so Immediately and obviously bad,
its incidents not so repulsive. but de-
structive in the end, have seen alum
dant proof. Colonel Greene, President
Conn. Mutual Life ms. Co.
Careful observation leaves liatle
doubt that moderate dose of beer or
wine would in most cases at oncc
diminish the maximum weight which
a healthy person could lift. Mental