The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-06-08

of alcohol on the cardiac organ for mo-
sooner is the quantity administered suffi-i
GENTLY increased than all its at first appar-
entity stimulating effects vanish. From it's
now possessing adequate power to paralyze
the accelerating as well as the retarding
cardiac nerve mechanism, the hearts ac-
ton, therefore, now becomes diminished
pdfS pdssa with the amount of the paralyz-
ing agent employed, until at length tf q
sumclency be given) the cardiac move
ments are totally arrested, and death closes
the scene.
INFEMPERANCE AND HEART DISEASE.
1t being well known that iutemperancg
is 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 / at present require
to do is to prove that even what is called
moderate drinking has a much greater
share than is generally supposed in not only
greatly increasing heart diseases in cases
where they already exist, but also in in
ducing their development in the constitu-
tionally and the hereditarily predisposed
to become affected by them. The reason
why moderate drinking should induce
not only hypertrophy and dilatation,
but likewise valvular disease of
the heart, is not far to seek-from its be-
ing recognized fact that every increase
IN muscles activity is associated with an
increase IN its development, as well as it's
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 l have drawn up
from the Registrar Generals reports, of
the relative frequency of diseases of the
clrculatory system among men between the
ages OF twenty-five and sixty-five en-
ployed in different industries. For
it not only shows the effects of So
called moderate drinking per Sc, but
likewise the still more pernicious eff
fects 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 time are much more fire.
quently affected with the fatal forms Of
cardiac diseases than others, it in an
who, like brewers, require in the course OF
their trades 10 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 circulatory 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 opposed to theI Those exposed 5y Their
temptation Of drinking gocdtioh TO the teRiptq-
ton Of drinking. ;
Drapers and ware Commercial travel
AousCneH' .'.-fol erS..-. -........ IUt
Gardeners and nur- Winters, walters and
seryuon 81 Darmen. 14bs
Printers. 80 BrewerS. ........ l65'
Moreover, it is equally known that in
temperance is most active agent in the
induction of atheromatous FATTY granular)
degenerations in the coats of the arterial
system, and as such fruitful source not
only of death by 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 liable to sudden rupture as
those of the other, if not, indeed even more
so, from the less solid nature of the brain
surroundings.