The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-01-05

call called Of raising adag|0. is real really vPS rO
the temperature in one part of the system
is raised by the stimulant, it is more than
from some other part of the body. A lady
under certain circumstances has a blush
mount to her cheek, and it requires no ar
gument to convince you that this is at the
expense exp T., of the rest rest Of foo the body.
tOxicating liquor. The heat that it is
said to make it only entices away from
the balance of the system. You stir up a
hornets nest and you will find, In that
neighborhood, if you wait there long
enough. greatly increased temperature of
the surface of the body, Yet no one would
recommend this method of getting warm"
The Doctor then went on to state that the
Assembly of Physicians and Surgeons of
not nourish, and as the results of
their elaborate investigation on this point
had never been seriously disputed, no fur
ther argument upon it was needed. There
has, however. crept into some professional
councils another serious error. Thus, the
value of alcohol to heart stimulant But
even SURPRISING that this were granted to
be correct, the great question is whether
the good it has done in heart trouble is not
far more than counterbalanced by the one
hundred thousand deaths from drunken
ness it annually claims. The Doctor fur
Their described the action of alcohol on the
heart, explaining that liquor congests that
organ, and it "gets on a SPREE in
sympathy with the body, and the blood eSi
veins, which lose the force of the vase
motor system that regulates their capacity.
A test has recently been made of the case
of a young man ia perfect health, to ascer-
tain the difference in heart work on water
and alcohol drink, with the result that,
after a gradual series of experiments last
ing over six days, commencing with an
ounce and adding one ounce daily to the
last, when it was found that the heart beat
q, 900 times more in a day than in its normal
condition The work done in usual cir
cumstances by the heart tin six daysis equiv
alent to raising I'D tons one foot high, and
the work with the strain of alcohol in the
system amounts to raising 156 tons one foot
Dor under the over-strain of alcohol in the
body. From such stunning facts as the
above, the Doctor ventured to urge the
opinion, even in the face of the Interna-
tional Medical Congress, that alcohol is not
good for the heart. He, then demonstrated
that it's effects were no less disastrous to the
mind. citing. the case of Norway,
where for ten years all restriction
on the. liquor traffic was abolished,
and during that time. insanity
idiots 80 per cent. The Doctor then said
the crying need of the present time for tenn
perance was to cut it off at its source,
which was too often to be found in the
startling but undeniable truth that moth
ers reared their very babes for intemper-
ance by drinking wine and beer before
their birth, and so irrevocably committing
them to an Unsuitable craving for this de-
stroyer from the very cradle itself There
is one truth he said, in MOSeSs teaching
that Bob Ingersoll has never picked flaw
with, viz: that 1.-The sins of the fathers
shall be visited upon the children unto the
third and fourth generation" But there is
is that the virtues of the fathers are like
wise visited on the children. Mothers
should reflect, when they are decrying the
saloon traffic, how much they have done by
these prenatal indulgenceS to build it up
and ruin their own sons. These mothers
are looking to third-party legislation as
measure of protection, when it would be
therein lies almost the only remedy. The
nursery is where the real reform is wanted.
Let mothers beware how they adj
minister these soothing syrups and
other nostrums to their children which con-
sist of two-thirds whisky, and are the best
emissaries the prince of darkness has to- day
for intemperance, and he Is satisfied as
long as mothers are blinded to these awful
truths.
The Doctor then said the medical profess
sion refused to give up liquor in their
formulas because the ills of humanity were
mainly dependent on it, and the medical
profession would soon run out with the
abolition of alcohol, aud they knew it. The
only way to conquer this insidious use of
the destroyer is for people to read their pre-
scriptiOns and refuse to use any that con-
tain it in any shape or form, "fors said
the Doctor, ''such prescriptions bear the
very hOOf-mark of the evil One."