Dodge City times., 1888-06-21

| ltory tA.d .d:ao ae. - power, paralvIe IL
| through the instrumentality of a toxic
agent. and precisely the same chain of phe-
| nomena will of necessity be the result.
The most powerful paralyZcr Of the vaguS
we at present know of is atropia: and what
! happens when it is given in a full
dose! Nothing more or less than
the effects We have here attributed to
the section Of the vagus -tumultu.
Gus hearts action, quichened pulse,
congested face and eyes. etc. Aico-
hol acts on the heart, l believe. in precisely
the same manner as atropia does. although
less strongly: that is to say, it quickens
the hearts action, as well as apparently in
creases its power, by paralyzing its re-
straining or inhibitOry nerve mechanism.
This. however, is only the primary action
OF alcohol on the cardiac organ, for nc
sooner is the quantity administered sufi.
ciently increased than all its at first appar.
entity stimulating effects vanish. From its
now possessing adequate power to paralyzc
the accelerating as well as the retarding
cardiac nerve mechanism, the hearts ac-
tiOn, therefore, now becomes diminished part
pdssu with the amount of the paralyz;ng
agent employed, until at length Gf a suffi
cheney be given> the cardiac movements are
totally arrested, and death closes the scene.
INTEMPERANCE AND HEART DISEASE.
1t being we'll known that intemperance
is a most fruitful cause not only Of all the
various forms of heart disease. but like
wise of the degenerations of the coats OF
the blood vessels, all l at present require
to do is to prove that even what is called
moderate drinking has a much greater
share than is sgenerally supposed in not only
greatly increasing heart d seases in cases
where they already exist, but also in in
ducing their development in the constitu
tionally and the hereditarily predisposed
to become affected ty them. The reason
why moderate drinking should induce
not Cnly hypertrophy and dilatation,
but likewise valyular disease of
the heart, is not far to seek-fron its be-
ing recognized fact that every increase
in a muscles activity is associated with al
increase in its development. as well as its
tension on the parts with which it is con-
nected. The truth of the foregoing state
ments will, by little reflection, be cleaned
from the results of drinking small guam
titles of alcohol frequently during the day,
as manifested by the figures in the sub
joined table of mortality have drawn up
from the Registrar Generals reports, of
the relative frequency Of diseases Of the
circulatory system among men between the
ages Of twenty five and sixty-five employed
in different industries. For it not only shows
the effects Of so-called moderate drinking
per sc, but likewise the still more pcrnicious
effects of it when it is associated
with intermittent muscular strain-that is
to say, when the stimulus of alcohol upon
the heart has superadded to it an increase
in the hearts activity necessitated by Oft
repeated sudden muscular efforts; for
which it shows that all exposed to the par
taking Of alcoholic stimulants in small
quantities at a time are much more fire.
quently affected with the fatal forms CT
cardiac diseases than others, it in an
equally unmistakable way shows that men
who, like brewers, require in the course of
their trades to tax their muscular strength,
and thereby throw additional work upon
their hearts, are far more often attacked
with the fatal forms of diseases affecting
the circulatorv system than men equally
addicted to imbibe alcoholic stimulants, but
who are not called upon to make similar
kinds of straining muscular efforts
The relative proportions of deaths from
diseases Of the circulatory system in the
different classes are:
Those not 20. Osed TO fhel TH0s: rrposeH by heiy
feaRpfCtiOh Of drinking. gOc0fiOh to the teDlptd
ton Of 6rinhiaq.
DraperS and ware Commercial travel
HOuSemen .........., ,S' crS.,..,....fN fN |
Gardeners and nur- Winters. walters and
Serymen n.-..........S' barlnen 1tt |
Printers % Brc wcrS IGJ |,
Moreover, it is equally known that in
temperance is most active agent in the |
induction Of atheronatous (fatty granular> |
degenerations in the coats of the arterial |
system, and as such a fruitful source not |
only of death b. cardiac syncope, but like
wise by apoplexy, from the cerebral vessels |
being quite as frequently and as severely |
affected with the degeneration as those of
the heart itself, and the coats of the one
set being as liza BILE to sudden rupture as
those Of the other, if not, indeed, even more
SO, from the less solid nature of the brain