Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1895-10-23
prn. wiRr ~. ALCOHOLISM.
optnt,ns ~ Member 81 tho
Louisiana Board at ucalth.

OpIutnus of nCmbrf ut TIE
Louisiana Board at Health.
Alcoholism is increasing rapid
~. but its cure will loo accom-
rlIshed by physicians and santa
rians, not Ivy preachers and
c,anks," said DIR. Felix Formento
# NV Orleans yesterday in the
course If an interview. The
doct,r has several remedies for
intemporance, among which are
he use at meals of hyRionic drinks,
,mong which he classes the pure
wines If California Weight is
given to his statements from the
fact that he represented the
Louisiana Board of Health at the
recent convention of the American
Public Health Association in
Denver, and was chairman I the
mmittee of that body 10 which
referred the subject Of the
.buse Of Alcoholic Drinks from
sanitary Standpoint.
Although we took strong
ground & inst the use vi alcohol
proper." said DR.. Fnrmento, eve
recommr nded, among ether things,
the uabltual drinking of wine at
meals as au antidote. The growth
of alcoholism III Southern Europe,
where drunkenness was previou ,ly
unknown, was coeval with the
failure of the grape crors, due to
the phylloxera and other causes.
Since then new industry has
grown up, the manufacture of
adulterated and art fetal alcOhoIs
from succharne matter. To that
is to be attributed the great exteM-
sion of the evil, with It's terrible
phy,ical, mental aud moral con-
sequences. There is a great diff
ference between vinous and COM
mercal alcohols, fact which is
too often lost sight Of. The latter
contains large quantities OF tuSel
oil.
among the remedies against
alcoholism that l recommended
were the incl ease of the tax Oh
r alc)bol proper and the removal Of
all unneces sary financial burdens
fr, m wine, beer, cider and coffee,
As remarked: "The day when
C4lifor lia, Ohio and other grape
growing States shall produce a
sufficient quantity Of wine for
consumption, and the day when
the use of wine shall become
general among Americans, that
day alcoholism will disappear"
This last provision leads me
to state that one of the causes OF
ale hUllsm is that tho panple do
not know how to eat velour
cooking is bad. We Americans
eat too often and of too great u
variety Of dishes at one meal.
Then we wash this down with iced
water, Il practice not conducive to
digestion. This in turn produces
a thirst for alcoholic drinks, and
in tho long run predisposes to
dyspepsia, the national disease,
ard It's If on, # the causes of IN
temperance. This is one of the
few countries in the world where
people drink standing, without
being th rs.y, r the mere sake
of sociability. AS the remedy for
this my committee recommended
the establishment of popular
kitchens where food should be
properly prepared and where wine
or beer, instead of iced water,
should be drunk at meals. The
idea. as you may perceive, is not
to furllsh the American people
with food and drink, but to edu-
cate them to proper habits IN
these important respects. The
more general use of strong coffee
is another remedy of alcoholism,
Coffee is one of the best of stimu.
lants and is an .antidote to alcohol
ism as it Is to opium. ! have no
faith in radical measures to over
come the evil. Temperance, not
total abstinence or Sunday laws,
is the true cure. TINS will be
acc DmpIlshed by physicians and
san tarlans and not by preache:s
or extremists. IS. +. Chronicle.