Morning journal and courier., 1892-08-18
1Ew HAVEN. CONN. THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 49, 1892

represents the numbsr of microbes in the
cream and shows the deadly nature oi
cream.
Therefore commend the advice of the
board of health to feed children little
whisky. 1t is thoroughly in acoords snce
with the revelations of sanitary science.
And it makes me sad to think how many
little mounds would not be raised II
whisky were more generally fed to chill
dren all over the land, especially during
sultry weather. Sixty years ago knew a
man who had the sagacity to buy barrel
of good whisky and put 1t in his cellar
every time just before another addition to
the family was expected. He was then
duly prepared to wage war upon the venom
GUS bacteria.
If the child be 80 restless and nervous
that it seems to dislike the life-giving fluid
its nurse should sooth it by humming the
inspiring refrain:
"Here is to good whisky, pure and strong;
Drink it down, drink IL down, drink 1t down.
Here is to good whisky, pure and stroug;
Drink it down. drink It down, drink II down."
My profound studies have convinced me
that the benefits of using whisky should
not be confined to children. All ages
should use it for the purpose of keeping
the micro-organisms in subjection and
maintaining an anti-germicidal condition.
1t is q very unsanitary thing to deprive la
borers CT plenty of whisky, especially If
the weather is very hot. Whisky Is also q
fine thing to keep out the cold. Our board
of health should have money enough to
enable 1t to send keg of good whisky to
every laboring man, especially IL he has a
large family Of children to bring through
the hot weather.
There is another sanitary aspect of the
whisky topic to which tearfully beseech
attention. TIE death roll steadily
lengthens. Mankind are constantly dying
And what do they die Oft Why they
die from exhaustion-from want of energy
from lack of strength.
Under these sad circumstances it seems
to me very unsanitary thing not to util-
ize the vast amount or power and energy
which is stored up in barrels of whisky.
Machines have been constructed which
will measure the velocity and power of q
cannon ball when it leaves the muzzle of
the gun-so many thousands of pounds.
But no one has made machine to measure
the muzzle energy developed by barrel
of good whisky because that power is too
great for measurement. Sanitary science
bids us use this tremendous energy for the
benefit of mankind. If 1 were training
John L. Sullivan 1 should give him quart
of whisky every day. But I find his
trainer 80 ignorant of sanitary science
that he does not give the poor fellow a
single drop. And I also learn that some
doctors are 80 ignorant that they object to
their patients taking fluid SO full of en-
ergy as whisky. But, as partial offset to
this unsanitary conduct, it is pleasant TO
observe that many doctors are wise enough
to invariably speak of whisky as ''nour-
ishment." This is a correct use of lam
guage, tor what is there so ''nourishing"
as whiskya What giants we all might be
if we would only use more of this "nour-
ishment."
One other fact of enormous Importance
l have learned. Statistics show beyond
all question that no one ever dies from ex
haustion until after he has ceased to take
whisky. So long as he takes it life re-
mains 1t follows that all sanitary nurses
should constantly remind patients of the
danger of stopping. If they can only be
induced to continue to imbibe strength
and energy. all danger of death will disap-
pear.
The great sanitary discoveries am con
Btantly making crafty my lofty moral
nature. But 30 far as my bodily wants
are concerned they are only vanity and
vexation of spirit, because I am still with
out an Office and still without the delight
of receiving check on our city treasury
every month. Other sanitsrisn get the
gravy while get nothing but dry bones
and mouldy crusts. / once saw an OK
driver step between a yoke of heavy oxen.
No sooner had he done so than one of the
oxen stepped on his foot and hurt him ter
ribly. He kicked at the ox's leg with his
free foot, and failing to thus secure relief
he turned his eyes to heaven and cried
out: "Grest God! how long is this OK 60
ing to stand on my foott"
In like manner sm anxious to know
how long the other sanitarians are going
to keep me out of the Office 1 80 badly
need. AN OLD SASITARIAS.