The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1895-09-06
A Scientific Lecture

DIR. G. A. Dorman, lectunei last night
on "the effects Of alcohol upon mind aud
BODY" Besides teing pleasing tziker
he adds to the e;fec; OF his lecture by
giving illustrations OF the topic being
presented.
Alcohol Is the result OF decay. Il can
only be made as the product Of disease
and death. Even leach can only live
twenty minutes in alcohol: though II
will lave for hours cut in two in the san.
Animals will never use alcohol unless
taught. 4 ii. vas once beside a drunk-
en- man. Some one said man Is known
by the company he keeps, and the pig
left. lnsteAd OF being stimulznt Is
stated for years, 1t Is nov learned tina.
alcohol is only an irriianf and narcotic,
the same as no, coal on turtle
The little corpuscles IN the blood are
10 take oxygen through the body. Al
eolaol makes these eorpuscles hard AID
irregular and unfit for use The alcohol
increases the action OF the blood, goes
10 the hrsin, benEmts the nerve that
protects the heart and il heats twice as
fast, and irreguiarly- The pulse OF 4
diving man il merely . ripple AMI 10 10
$50 beats 4 minute. Brandy should
never be given diving man; il increases
the circulation. L man who drinks has
= re4i nose because the nerves IN the
nose are pa-aly1esf and the blood vessels
become large and flushed 80 IN the
stomach alcohol paTalyses the nerves.
AZ he drinks the stomach becomes ulcer
aged. The nerves of the stomach are
much less sensitive than OF the head and
throat, hence the effects OF alvohol are
not felt as sopn on the digestion as on
the brain. Alcohol is not food, il is
not digested II is 10, ev'sn . heater;
il decreases the heat. IL does not help
digestion: il irriiates and hariens, him
dering digestion. The speaker had the
whites oi four eggs in q glass He pour
ed alcohol into it. In less than two min
utes il was hard and thick. Digestion
makes thin. The proof wSs plain. After
a spree man throws up his food as eat
TN: undigestei. In every body are dead
cells that must pass OF in the healthy
person. Alcohol preserves these cells
and keeps them in the body, and the
man becomes large and bloated, full OF
dead matter. sullivan in his fight with
Goblet was his Iit times IN the face and
IL times over the heart. The trouble
with Sullivan was too much booze He
was hit before he could see the blow.
The yellow ring around the drinkers eye
ball, means degeneration oi the brain.
A nicture was shown actually painted by
a man who had had delerium tremens,
once a talented Englishman. The mod
crate driuker is the one who should be
punished the drunkard is diseased man
and should be treated: so the speaker
declared man might as well be licensed
to sell small pox germs as liquor. These
old liquors were made few DAYS before.
Lime kills the fusil oil that age used to
kill, and the liquor gotten today rs often
a mixture OF the worst poison and the
most nauseating stuff.
Out of 70 men executed on a 81. Louis
galiows, 10 committed their crimes when
under the influence of liquor.
Wilkes Booth drank three times before
shooting Lincoln.
TIE speaker had had experience in a
bichilorate of gold cure. lie had noticed
that the men lost their taste for liquor;
but the taste for immortality had not
gone Without being pointed to Christ
the chances are that the keeley cure will
fall again.
The lecturer closed with personal
telk to men only in which he answered
several questions and gave some facts
Young men need to know.