The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-07-23
THE VOICE OF SCIENCE.

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.-D Icing
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 il entails
diseased appetites and enfeehled con-
stitItion upon offspring; and that it is
the cause of a large percentage of
the crime and pauperism of our large
cities and country. Medical AsSocid-
tom 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 a sufficient pretext for inn
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 ~ Collins, II. d.
Alcohol can not, in any sense, be
considered 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
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
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-
gress, IN 1870.
We can prove with mathematical
nnrfa inf x-f hot
on the point of table knife is more
nutritious thar eight quarts of the best
Bavarian beer; that person who is
able daily to consume that amount of
beer, obtains from it in a whole wear,
in the most favorable case, exactly the
amount of nutritive constituent which
is contained in a five pound loaf or in
three pounds of tlesh.-B0r0n Liebig.
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-tkat trifling 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 trifling as the
scratch of in.-Pacifc Medical Jour-
ndl
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 /
state that alcohol is not helper of
work, but certain hinderer of work;
and every man who comes to the
front of a 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. DR.. AradreaU Clark, one
of the physicians to her Majesty, the
Queen.
protest against the notion so pre-
valent and so industriously urged, that
beer is harmless, and a 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-
ton. That in this country and climate
its 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 album
dant proof. Colonel Greene, President
Conn. Mutual Life ms. Co.
ft,1 1;t4Jo
doubt that moderate dose of. beer or
wine would in most cases at once
diminish the maximum weight which
healthy person could lift. Mental
acuteness, accuracy of perception, and
delicacv of the senses are all so far OPP
posed by alcohol, that the maximum
efforts of each are incompatible with
the ingestion of any moderate quantity
of fermented liquid. A single glass
will often suffice to take the edge off
both mind and body, and to reduce
their capacity to something below
their perfection of work. DR.. w.
Brtntoaa.
We are of opinion l. That very
large proportion of human misery, in
GLIDING poverty, disease and crime is
induced by the use of alcoholic or fer
mented liquors as beverage. 2.
That the most perfect health is com
patible with total abstinence from all
such intoxicating beverages, whether
in the form of ardent spirits, or as
wine, beer, ale, porter, cider, etc. g.
That persons accustomed to such
drinks may with perfect safety discon-
tinue them entirely, either at once, or
gradually after short time. f. That
total and universal abstinence from
alcoholic beverages of all sorts would |
greatly contribute to the health, the |
prosperity and happiness of the human |
race. 1000 Physictans of Great |
Britain.
We believe that the hereditary evils
of beer-drinking exceed those proceed /
ing from ardent spirits. First, because
the habit is constant and without par