The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-06-21

itorw cardiac Horsepower, sernlyEe 10
through the iastrumentality Of toxic
agent, and precisely the same chain Of phe-
nomena will of necessity be the result
The most powerful paralyzer Of the vagus
we at present know of is atropia; and what
happens when it is given in fuE
dosel Nothing more or less than
the effects we have here attributed to
the section of the vagus -tumultu-
Gus hearts action, quickenCd pulse,
congcstcd face and eyes, etc. Alec
hol acts on the heart, believe, in precisely
the same manner as atropia does, although
less strongly: that is to say, il quickcns
the hearts action, as well as apparcntly in
crcascs its power. by paralynug its re-
straining or inhbitorv nerve mechanism
This. however, is only the primary action
of alcohol on the cardiac organ, for no
sooner is the quantity administered suffi-
GENTLY increased than all its at first appar-
entity stimulating effects vanish. From its
now possessing adequate power to paralyzo
the acCelcrating as well as the rctarding
cardiac nerve mechanism, the hearts ac-
tiou, therefore, now becomes diminished part
pdSSu with the amount of the paralyLiug
agent employed, until at length df SUM-
cheney he given the cardiac movements are
totally arrested. and death closes the scene.
INTEMPERANCE AND HEART DISEASE.
II being we'll known that intcmpcrance
is a most fruitful cause not only of all the
various forms of heart disease, but like
wise Of the dcgCncrations 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 i'll not only
l. Il
where they already exist, hut also in in
duCinG their development in the COnstitu-
tionally and the hercditarily prcdisposed
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 a recognized fact that every increase
in a muscles activity is associated with an
increase in its development, as wei as its
tension on the parts with which II is con-
nccted 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 tho
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 superaddcd to il an increase
in the hearts activity neccssitated by oft
,l,,.
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
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 Circulatory system than men equally
addicted to imbibc 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 ,rD0ssd 10 theITHOS rrDoSed Jg mir
t.mpfGtioa OF drinking. rOcatiob To Hs teHpta.
Diapers and Commercial travel
hOusemcn. IS crs.. .......... 100
Gardeners and nur- Winters walters and
SCrymCn 49,. ........S g.? barmen. ........li6
Printers ......... e. % Bre wers .. .... 800. lh5
Moreover, it is equally known that in
temperance is "a most active agent in the
induction of atheromatous FATTY granular)
dcgcnerations in the coats of the artcrial
system, and as such fruitful source not
only of death by cardiac syncopc, 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 ono
set being as liable to sudden rupture as
those of the other, if not, indeed, even more
50, from the less solid nature of the brain
surroundings.