Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-09-17
to Se n mo stop to the work, no stay in the effort
% pulVerize the rum power. -A' 0n0''
ALCOHOL AND n1srAsr
's''ise Statements by Experienced, A
thorities Worthy of cr.,,.,,o.

a., ny Experienced Au.
horities Worthy of Cretlence.
". hlgginbottom, an eminent s,rcao,,
VI Nottingham: consider shall do mors
- curing disease and preventing disease
thu ~ one year by prescribing total abstinence
~ Juan a.. could do in the ordinary course of
80 IA eA'c4slve practice Of one hundred Years.
IT ~. James G. Wakley, in the London
i ;.a"e1 II Is no figure of speech, but the
h ,ne.al truth, that hundreds of neuralpic.
ddss1erlc and epileptic patients have been
hr ~ IA ant % atunkennes or lunacy, or both,
~ me endless folly Of advisers, who had
large doses Of alcohol than the fact that
!nese diseases are attended with nervous
weakness. It is a grave scandal
and mischief that medical men should en-
danger in this serious way the power Of
moral resistance of women and other weak
persons. >- "e"A
Boston Board of Health, 1882: All kinds
OF ardent spirits and other strong stimu-
lants are not only not useful in preventing
cholera, but dispose to its attack.
hes0tued, That the vending of ardent
spirits, in whatever quantity, be considered
nuisance; and as such is hereby directed
10 be discontinued for the space of ninety
days from this date.-By order of the
Board Of Health, James Larned Secre-
tary, passed IN Washington, d. c., 1882,
on account of the prevalence of the
cholera.
All spirit drinkers will be the first vic.
Tins of the cholera.-Notice displayed bu
the authorities of London in 1882.
| Cholera has stood up here (MontreaD, as
it has everywhere, the advocate of tenn
perance. 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 little better off. Ardent
spirits in any shape and in any quantity
have been highly detrimental. There
seems to be natural affinity between the
cholera and ardent spirits.-Dr. Bronson,
acriting from Montreal, 1882.
We have a great horror of arsenic and
fifty other things; the fact is, all these
things are mere bagatelle in relation to
the most direct, absolute, immediate and
certain poisonings which IRE caused by al
cohol. There are more men killed, SO fal
as l know English statistics-more men
poisoned by alcohol-than are poisoned by
all other poisons put together.-Jas. Ed
naunds, NJ. d., London, Eng.
The Volksfreund for August, 1854, states
i
in Rotterdam the preceding year from chol-
era only three were abstainers.-Judgt
Pitman.
have found the use of alcoholic drinks
to be the most powerful predisposing cause
of malignant cholera with which I an
acquainted. Were one of the author.
tiles, I would placard every spirit shop ir
town with large bills containing the words
"Cholera sold here. DIR. A. M. Adams
Professor of the Institutes of Medicim.
IN the Andersonian University of Glds.
gow.
Alcoholism is widely prevalent, but it ii
not popular to die q drunkard. Its vic.
Tins are hardly ever credited to it unles.
they are poor and friendless.-EiOhth An.
a,udl Report of Massachusetts Board Of
Health.
James W. Alexander, Vice President o.
the Equitable Life Insurance Company
New York: 1 suppose that next to pull.
monary diseases more persons come tt
their death, either directly or indirectly, b,
Hundreds of men who die from live
complaint and kidney troubles might hav,
been healthy men to-day if they had no
poisoned their systems with alcohol.
DIR. King, of the Philosophical Societ
of Hull, Eng: In hospitals where tn
largest amount of alcohol is used, there il
the greatest percentage of deaths.
John Higginbottom, F. R. S.: have
amply tried both ways. gave alcohol il
my practice for twenty years, and have nov
practiced without it this last thirty years O.
more. My experience is that acute dis
ease is more readily cured without it
and chronic disease much more manage
able.
DR.. BENZ. w. Richardson, F. R. S.: Al
to the general use of alcohol in disease, ev
cry form Of disease would be better treated
without alcohol than with it.
DR.. N. s. Davis, Chicago: Alcohol ma.
be wholly dispensed with without injur.
to the sick, every intelligent physician be-
ing able to supply its place with other rem
edies of equal, if not of greater, value.