The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1886-07-07
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Read What Eminent and Experienced Ply
sicians Have Said.

Read What Eminent and Experienced Ply
sicians Have Said.
Three thousand cases of alcoholism
are treated yearly in the hospitals
DR.. Guttstadt, Berlin, 1854.
Under the names Of rum, brandy.
gin, whisky, wine, cider, beer and por-
ter, alcohol has become the bane Of
the Christian World.-Dr. Erasmus
Daraoi',, 1900.
One-third of the students in the uni
versities of Berlin and Halle are once
a week what you would call drunk
Prot. w +. Wessen, after seUen gears
residence IN Germany, 1867.
l have known many persons de-
stroyed by ardent spirits who were
never completely intoxicated during
the whole course of their lives. DIR.
Benjamin Rush, about 1850.
have treated nearly seven thou
sand cases of inebriety, and eight
tenths of that number originated from
wine and malt liquors.-Albert Day,
M d., Superintendent Of Washingto-
nian Home at Boston.
Judging from my observation, lager
beer is quite as likely to generate
murder and crime as the stronger
liquors. The one drunk on beer is real
ly more dangerous than the one drunk
on wine or whisky.-Dr. N. L. HoL-
brook.
Alongside of all the teetotalism that
exists there is an appalling amount of
tippling that does not distinctly intoxi-
cate, but saturates the principal or
gans and destroys them more quickly
than would an occasional debauch.-
Editor London Lancet, December, 1884.
Alcohol is the one evil genius,
whether in wine, or ale, or whisky.
and is killing the race of men. Stay
| the ravages of this one poison, alcohol.
that king of poisons, the mightiest
weapon of the devil, and the millen-
mum will soon dawn.-Dr. Willard
PARKER.
We should not admit the popular rea-
soning as applicable here, that the
abuse of thing is no argument against
its use. All use of ardent spirits as
beverage is an abuse. They are mis-
chievous under all circumstances
Samuel Emlin, Secretary of the College
Of Physicians and Surgeons Of PtilG-
delphia.
Don't take your daily wine under any
pretext of its doing you good. Take it
frankly as luNury-one that must be
paid for, by some persons very lightly.
by some at a high price, but ALWAYS to
be paid for. And mostly some loss of
health, or of mental power, or of calm
ness of temper, or of judgment is the
price.-Sir Henry Thompson. one Of
The most distinguished Of hving sur
geons.
detect alcohol in cider generally
when it is twenty-four hours old
sooner still when the apples are much
decayed. Often fermentation begins
about as soon as the juice is expressed,
both hot weather and advanced decay
fastening the process; even when the
apples are wholly sound, fermentation
usually begins within twenty-four
hours after the juice is expressed.-A.
NJ. Hays, NJ. D.. State Assayer of Mass
dchusetts.
The Germans are empbatically not Q
nation of sober beer-drinkers, but con-
sumo more spirituous liquors than the
Norwegians, the French, or the En-
glish, and as much as the notorious
Hollanders, and are beaten only by the
Russians and the Danes, who, as every
one knows, are brandy-drinkers
purely. Germans average yearly 8.8
quarts of whisky to every man. woman
and child in Germany.-Dr. Spinol0.
Berlin, 1884.
1t is often thought that wine, and
beer, and spirits give strength to a.
man; that they make the muscles con-
tract with more force, and sustain the
action. I have put this matter to the
test by means of experiments, and I
have found that the idea of alcohol
giving force and activity to the muscles
is entirely false. / found that alcohol
weakens the muscular contraction, and
lessons the time during which the con-
traction can continue active.-Dr. B
W. Richardson.