Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-11-13
VIEWS OF ALCOHOL.

FPERT VIEWS OF ALCOHOL.
koholism is the name given to a
baratively new series of phenom-
\ nd it is attracting the general at
on of specialists more every year.
Ihrkable testimony of the destruct-
\ nd injurious powers of liquor, es-
lily whiskey, is given in public
Just issued from the Bureau of
alton, entitled abnormal Man,"
J.. Arthur Mcdonald, one of the
Irnment's specialists. In an in
. ting chapter on alcoholism he
his own conservative views, and
adds digests of the literature of
countries upon the subject. AS
5atements are official results of
! land professional Investigations,
have a peculiar and timely value.
Mcdonald says the relation be-
ID alcoholism, crime, pauperism,
charity, is most intimate. All
4 of insanity, from melancholia
0becility, are found in alcoholism.
h oduces moral and intellectual
ness, and laxity as to honor and
rum. With these general declar-
5 he proceeds to give expert ties
4 by. First is the resume of the
of DIR. Baer of the Imperial
B or Health, and the chief prison
. cian at Berlin. DIR. Baer says
the universalizing of the use of
key alcoholism appeared. Alco-
~ is not an Unborn, instructive
but an acquired one. When
habitually, such liquor Injuries
Fhole constitution. Statistics for
by years in the United Kingdom
ed that the mortality was thirty
Der cent greater among drinkers
among abstainers. He takes Eu-
IN countries, and proves that al
ism was in direct proportion to
heapness and use of whiskey. In
ay and Sweden, as the use of whis-
decreased and the consumption of
+ increased, there was far less al
ism. In France drunkenness in
les, because the people drink less
and more whiskey. In both TIA
d Austria alcoholism is increas-
nd whiskey is responsible for it.
aer says further: ''The consump-
Pf alcohol increases in proportion
e cheapness of whiskey," and,
"Beer is the greatest enemy of
key" DR.. Bunge of Leipzig says
alcohol lessons the heat of the
and it strengthens no one, but
y benumbs the feeling of fatigue.
bonner says nothing has become
fversal as alcohol, and the citi-
Pf to- day needs more of it for
nal use than the citizen of the
1t affects the brain injuriously,
pw far no one is able to say. DR..
bnni, the Italian expert, asserts
alcoholism as a direct motive of
is very limited;" and he de-
that ''alcoholic intoxication
Is the sentiments of man neither
nor better, but it lets them
it accents them" DR.. Vetaul5
ris says the tendency to excess
Increased during the last thirty
He can find no fixed rule to
mine the responsibility of alco-
but he says the use Of alcohol
Is man to suicide, theft homicide,
hes which increase in direct pro-
pm to the consumption Of alco-
DR.. Monin thinks governments
n tend to favor the fermented
as compared with the distilled.
kolism varies inversely as the
4mption of wine." DIR. Peters
lssells, who investigated the eff
of alcoholism for the Royal
emy of Medicine Of Belgium, says
4huence is like the influence Of
These give the more interesting
rations OF the distinguished spec
and to them can be added
h the declarations signed by
zen professors of the faculties of
Pine at Leyden, Amsterdam,
ngen, and Utrecht: 1. Even the
rate use of spurious liquors is
Gus: alcohol does not favor di-
pm. 2. They are not stimulants
sary to cold or heat. 8. In all
pes those who habitually use Ii
offer less chance for resistance.
coholic drinks are destructive of
erity, and the moral and natural
epment of the masses. -Bdlti-
american.
ave not seen day for twenty
that / have not been ready for