The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-07-24
Disease AND ALCOHOL.

IcOuSluer L Sndll 90 more IN curing ulS-
ease and preventing disease in one year
by prescribing total abstinence than
could do in the ordinary course of an
extensive practice of one hundred
years. DR.. Hgginbottom, an Eminent
Surgeon of Nottingham.
1t is no figure of speech, but the lit
eral truth, that hundreds of neuralgia,
hysteric and epileptic patients have been
driven into drunkenness or lunacy, or
both, by the endless folly of advisers,
who had no better reason for the pre-
scriptiOn of large doses of alcohol than
the fact that these diseases are attended
with nervous weakness. It
is a grave scandal and mischief that
medical men should endanger in this
serious way the power of moral resist
ance of women and other weak per-
sons.-Dr. James G. WabIey, IN the
London Lancet
All kinds of ardent spirits and other
strong stimulants are not only not use
full in preventing cholera, but dispose
to its attack. -B0Stoaa Board of Health,
1882.
Resolved, That the vending of ardent
spirits, in whatever quantity, be con-
sidered nuisance-and as such is
hereby directed to be discontinued for
the space of ninety days from this date.
By order of the Board of Health,
James La7wed, Sec, Passed IN WASH
| 5ngt0n, d. c., 1882, on account of the
prevalence of the cholera.
All spirit-drinkers will be the first
victims of the cholera.-Nottce dis
played by the authorities Of London IN
1882.
Cholera has stood up here (Montre-
aD, as it has every where, the advocate
of temperance. 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 a natural affinity between the
cholera and ardent spirits DR.. Bron-
son, a0rjting from Montreal, 1892.
We have great horror of arsenic
and fifty other things; the fact is, all
these things are a mere bagatelle in re-
| lation to the most direct, absolute i'm
mediate and certain poisonings which
are caused by alcohol. There are more
men killed, so far as know English
| statistics more men poisoned by alco-
hol--than are poisoned by all other
poisons put together. jas. EdnundS,
N. d., London, Eng.
The VolkSfreurad for August, 1854,
states that out of nine hundred persons
who died in Rotterdam the preceding
year from cholera only three were alb
stainers. -Judge PitmGn.
/ have found the use of alcoholic
drinks to be the most powerful predis-
posing cause of malignant cholera
with which | am acquainted. We're I
one of the authorities, l would placard
every spirit shop in town with large
| bills containing the words: Cholera
sold here. DR.. 4. NJ adams, Profess
Sor oftbe Institutes of Medicine IN the
AnderSOnidn University of GiaSgoaU.
Alcoholism is widely prevalent, but
it is not popular to die drunkard. It's
victims are hardly ever credited to it
unless they are poor and friendless.-
Eighh AnnuaJ Report of Massachusetts
Board of Health.
| suppose that next to pulmonary
diseases, more persons come to their
death, either directly or indirectly, by
alcoholism, than from any other cause.
Hundreds of men who die from liver
complaint and kidney troubles might
have been healthy men to-day if they
had not poisoned their systems with
alcohol.-Jdmes W. alexander, rice
president Of the Equitable Life LeSur-
ance Company, NeU York
! In hospitals where the largest
amount of alcohol is used, there is the
greatest percentage of Deaths
King, of the Philosophical Society Of
Hull, Eng.
1 have amply tried both ways. I
gave alcohol in my practice for twenty
years, and have now practiced without
it this last thirty years or more. My
| experience is that acute disease is more
readily cured without it, and chronic
disease much more manageable
John Higginbottom, r. r. s.
As to the general use of alcohol in
disease, every form of disease would
be better treated without alcohol than
with it.-Dr. BENZ. w. Richardson, Il.
II. s.
Alcohol may be wholly dispensed
with without injury to the sick, every
intelligent physician being able to sup
ply its place with other remedies of
| equal, if not of greater, value.-Dr. N.
S. Darts, Chicago; DR.. Stephen Smith,
New York; DR.. James Edmu,,ds. Lon
don, and many other eminent men IN