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IA German Medical View.

At the recent Seventh Congress OF Internal
Medicine, held at WelSbaden, Germany, Ii
connection with discussion upon the use OF
alcoholic liquors in medicine, DR.. Blnz, OF
Boon, acting as chairman, is reported as say
ingii ge;in ordsr 70 dssre orr position as physi-
clans in our relation to the temperance and
prohibition societies, l would express myself
thus: All that have said pertains to the
sick. The healthy man has no need OF alco-
hol. and if he indulges in ardent spirits ne
does this solely for his own pleasure and at
his own risk. / place alongside or M Ine
whisky nuisance the beer nuisance Inc
habit of taking alcoholic stimulants apart
from meals is public evil from sanitary,
economic, and intellectual point OF view Inc
inveterate beer-drinker Is as much undfr the
dominion of alcohol as the BRANDY, or
whisky -drinker, and the greater sinner o
the two"
Marshall Parting with the Bottle.
A Congressional abstinence society was
formed and Marshall swore Off drinking. He
made a speech before the Society which is
perhaps the most eloquent temperance ef-
fort ever delivered in the Congressional halls,
though the sentence containing it is as long
as one of Senator Evarts' longest. Itran:
81 would not exchange the physical sensa-
tions, the mere sense OF animal being, which
belong to q man who totally refrains from
all that can lntoxicate his brain or derange his
nervous structure, the elasticity with which
he bounds from the couch in the morning, the
sweet repose it yields him at night, the feel
ing with which he drinks in through his
clear eyes. the beauty and the grandeur Of
surrounding nature; say, sir, will not ex-
change my conscious being as strictly tenn
perate man, the sense Of renovated youth,
Che glad play with Which my pulses now beat
a healthful music, the bounding vivacity
with which the life blood courses its exulting
way through every fiber Of my frame, the
communion high which my healthful ear and
of God, the splendors Of the morning. the
softness of the evening sky, the bloom, the
beauty, the verdure Of the earth, the music
of the air and of the waters; with all the
grand associations Of external nature re-
opened to the five avenues of sense; no. sir,
though poverty dog me, though scorn pointed
its slow finger at me as l passed, though
want and destitution and every element OF
earthly misery. save only crime, met my
for the brightest and noblest wreath
that ever encircled statesman's brow; not
if some angel commissioned by heaven, or
some demon sent fresh from hell to test the
resisting strength Of virtuous resolution,
should tempt me back, with all the wealth
and all the honorS Wmcn world can DeSDoW;
not for all that time and earth can give, would
I cast from me this precious pledge Of a
liberated mind, this talisman against tempta-
ton, and plunge again into tine dangers and
horrors which once beset my path. So help
me heaven, as I would spurn beneath my
very feet all the gifts the universe could offer.
and live and die as am, poor, but sober"
Notwithstanding this speech, however,
Marshall broke his pledge, and there is man
still living at Washington who took care Of
him during some Of his after-attacks Of
delirium tremens 1t is said that his first
drinking was caused by disappointment in
love, and it may have been that he would
have been sober man had this not occurred.
-NelD York Sun.