The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1886-08-04
OPINIONS OF SCIENCE.


Conclusions of Men OF Observation and
Experience, as Compiled by the "xvIth
Amendment"
I 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
OF privations may be undergone with
out alcoholic stimulants.-Dr. Living
stone. ..s t,...
We are of the opinion that the use
of alcoholic liquors as 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 Assocta-
tso,s of the United States, Detroit, 1874.
Most of the leading manufacturers
have made strictly temperate habits
an indispensable prerequisite to em-
ployment, and the least departure
therefrom q 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.--4. N. Collins, M. d.
Alcohol can not, in any sense, be
considered q 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. e. sr.....r., .4.5,. .5,...l
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. ".'a
Your memorialists nave no doubt
that the rumor Of 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
erhment 10 prevent or subdue It, Your
memorialists can sec no just cause why
the more certain and extensive rava-
ages of distilled spirits upon life should
not DC 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' ." 1TSO. .r lid
We can prove with mathematical
certainty that as much flour as can lie
on the point OF table knife is more
nutritious thar eight quarts Of the best
Bavarian beer; that q person who is
able daily to consume that amount of
beor, obtains from It in q whole year.
in the most favorable case, exactly the
amount of nutritive constituent which
Is contained In five pound loaf, or in
three pounds OF fiesh.-B0ron Liebig.
Sir Ashley Cooper. referring to his
experience in Guys Hospital, declared
that the beer-drinkers from the London
breweries, though presenting the ap-
pearance of the most rugged health.
were the most incapable OF all classes
to resist disease trifline 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 trifiing as the
scratch Of q pin.-Pacifc Medical Jour
nal. ~.
Ihave the evidence of nv own per-
sonal experience, and the experience
of the enormous numbers Of people
who pass before me every year; and I
state that alcohol Is not helper Of
work, but q certain hinderer OF work;
and every man who comes to the
front of 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 Isl:
II am sorry, but I can not take it and
do my work." ."-Dr. Andrew Clark, one
of the physicians to her Majestu, the
Queen. -r3Y = 'tf
] protest against the notion so pre-
valent and so industri0usly urged, that
beer Is harmless, and q desirable sub
stitute for the. more concentrated
liquors. What beer may be. and what
1t may 90 In Other countries and cli-
mates, l do not know from observa-
tlon' mat IN this country and climate
its use Is an evil only less that the use
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