Beverly banner. [volume] (Beverly, N.J.) 1877-1964, 1889-12-07

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cessitv of airing bed-clothing all the
clothing worn during the day.
The following extract from the IA
cifc NedjcH journal is Endorsed by the
officers of the Home Life Insurance,
Company (New York;, and made use
Of by them in the form Of IA circular:
"rhe fashion of the present day, in
the United States, sets strongly toward
the substitution of beer for other stimu-
lating liquors. An idea appears to be
gaining ground that it is not only nutrl-
tious but conducive to health, and
further, that there docs not attach to it
that danger of creating incorporate
habits which attends the use of other
drinks. The subject is one Of great
magnitude, and deserves the attention
of medical men as we'll as that Of the
moralist.
"Many years ago, and long before
the moral sense of society was awakened
to the enormous evils of iDtemperance,
Sir Ashley Cooper, an undisputed au-
thority in his day, denounced habitual
beer-drinking as noxious to health.
Referring to his experience in Guys
Hospital, he declared that the beer
drinkers from the London brewerles
though presenting the appearance Of
most rugged health, were the most in
capable of all classes to resist disease
that trihing injuries among them were
liable to lead to the most serious CON
sequences, and that so prone were they
to succumb to disease, that they would
sometimes die from gangrene in wounds
as trifing as the scratch of a pin.
"Weapprehend that no great change
either in beer or men has taken place
since the days of the great surgeon.
at may also be said of beerdrink-
ing, that there is less limitation to it
than to the habtual use Of other
drinks. 1t does not produce speedy
intoxication. When the drinker be
comes accustomed to it, it will scarcely
produce active intoxication in any
quantity. 1t makes him heavy, sleepy
and stupid. Even in moderate guam
titles its tendency is to dizziness and
| sluggishness of body and mind. Beer
drinkers are constant drinkers. Their
capacity becomes unlimited. The
swilling of the drink becomes irregular
business. 1t has no arrest or suspen-
sion, like whiskey-drinking, to admit
recuperation. The old definition Of a
regular beer-drinker was true: Every
morning an empty barrel, every night
a barrel of beer
"Of all Intoxicating drinks 1t is the
most animalizing. 1t dulls the intel
lectual and moral, and feeds the sen
sual and beastly nature. Beyond all
other drinks it qualities for deliberate
and unprovoked crime. In this re-
spect it is much worse than distilled
liquors.
"a Undergraduates will commit
murder only under the direct excite
ment Of liquors. beer-drinker is ca
pable of doing it in cold blood. Long
observation has assured us that a large
proportion of murders deliberately
planned and executed without passion
or malice with no other motive than
the acquisition Of property or money,
often of trifing value, are perpetrated
by beer-drinkers.
1--WE believe, further that the here
ditary evils of beer-drinking exceed
those proceeding from ardent spirits
first, because the habit is constant and
without paroxysmal Interruptions,
which admit Of some recuperation ;
secondly, because beer-drinking is
practiced by both sexes more generally
than the spirit-drinking; and thirdly ;
because the animalizing tendency of
the habit is more uniformity developed,
thus authorizing the presumption that
the vicious results are more generally
transmitted.
at will be inferred from these re-
marks that we take no comfort from
the substitution of malt drinks for
spirituous liquids. On the contrary,
it is cause of apprehension and alarm,
that just as public opinion, professional
and unprofessional, is uniting all over
the world in the condemnation of the
common use of ardent spirits, the por-
tails of danger and death are opening
wide in another direction.
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