The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-11-20
TEMPERANCE NOTES.
ALCOHOLIC ENTAlLMENTS.

The Personal and Transmitted Results
of Inebriety.
While students of this phase Of social
life have not Of late doubted as to the
extent of alcoholic entailments, the pub
lie, says the New York Independent, are
70 used to fastening their attention on
the excessive results that the extent of
the impairment in health, citizenship
and morals is much overlooked. In the
October number 1sss) Of The Quarterly
journal of Inebriety, DR.. L. D. Mason
has given so satisfactory summary that
we shall quote chiefly from 1t:
Richardson, in his Cantor Lectures on Alco
hol, writes: Among the many insorutable de.
signs OF nature none Ia more manifest than this
that physical vice, like physical feature and
physical virtue, descends in line. Not one OF
the transmitted wrongs physical or mental, Is
more certainly passed on to those yet unborn
than the wrongs which are inflicted by alcohol
'Blanford, writing on the causes Of insanity,
says: Though the parents may not have been
insane they may have become the subjects OF
neuroses, which in their progeny become in
sanity; they may have been Chronic drunk.
ards" epileptics, hypochondriacs, etc.
"Dr. Sykke, physician to the city hospital,
Copenhagen Denmark, writes: Bruhl Cramef,
from long examination Of this subject, con-
cludes that drunken parents are seldom prolific,
and when so the children are stupid, malicious
and full of mental defects
"Skae collected SO cases of dipsomania. In 30
cases inheritance was clearly marked. In col
lateral branches he found drunkenness, dipso.
MANIA suicide, mental disease.
'Dr. Martin, while inferno ut Salpetriere, OBJ
tanned data of heredity in SO insane epileptics
NJ tbaoo In Q9tah
lished Incorporate habits in parents. There
were pa brothers and sisters in this class OF
% cases; 100 Of these were dead; l12 were still
living, mostly young; many with defective
nerve organizations.
'.The American testimony is equally con-
elusive on this point. The late DR.. d. G. Dodge,
superintendent Of the New York State In
ebriate Asylum, writes: Like all hereditary
diseases, intemperance is transmitted from
parent to child as much as scrofula, govt or
consumption. 1t observes the laws OF trans
mitted disease 1t sometimes overlaps one gen.
GRAFTON (atavism) and appears in the succeed.
ing, or 1t will miss even the third generation
and then reappear in all it's former activity and
violence. Hereditary inebriety, like all trans
mitted diseases, gives the least hope of o per-
manent cure, and temporary relief is all that
can be reasonably expected
"Dr Joseph Parrish, in his work on Alcoholic
",
and the alcoholic diathesis,' says: Not only
is there a transmission, but a transmutation Of
disease by heredity. Inebriety may descend as
inebriety, but 1t is just as likely to change the
form Of its appearance into insanity or other al
lied morbid manifestation"
DIR. L. d. Mason, in 800 cases which
have been under his observation and
treatment in the Inebriate Home, Fort
Hamilton, N. Y, finds heredity in 265.
Crothers, Day, Elan and many others
confirm these views.
The testimony of British medical ex-
perts before the House of Commons Is as
extensive as it is valuable.
CDR. David Skae physician to the Royal
Edinburgh Asylum for Insanity, testified: Dip
somania he regarded as a species of moral in
sanity. The causes were mostly hereditary, al
though some were caused by blows on the
head, hemorrhage with large loss Of blood, ant
sometimes by disease Of the BRAIN"
Or Alexander Peddie, physician Of thirty
seven years. practice in Edinburgh, Scotland
has for twenty years paid especial attention tt
the causes and effects of intemperance, ant
also written upon the subject from medica
standpoint, testified: He could cite scores o
cases that had come under his notice in proof o
the transmission from drunken parents to thei
children Of procivity to drink.
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