The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-11-20

ana ValVular disease OF the heart
creates hardened liver; produce:
Bright's disease, and ruins the deli.
cate lining of the stomach.
DIR. Ballinger, of Munich, asserts
that it is very rare to find normal
heart or kidneys in an adult resi-
dent of that city. This on account
he says, of the excessive amounts
being drunk by them. DR.. T. D.
Crothers says in the Popular Science
Monthly. ''Inebriety is a physical
condition, the tendency of which is
often inherited and also acquired
that this condition is always dis
ease, modified or pronounced form
of insanity.
The life insurance societies which
have financial interest in this matter
tell us some very startling things.
Temperance people live 30 per cent
longer than their expectancy, while
drinkers live only three per cent lon
ger.
The Boston Medical Journal says
in regard to the yellow fever epidemic
at New Orleansi "The yellow fever
came down. like storm upon this de-
voted city with it's 1927 dram shops
in one of the four quarters into which
it is divided. 1t is not the citizens
proper but the foreigners, with mis-
taken notions about the climate and
country, who are chief supporters of
these dram shops. About 500 of
them died before the epidemic
touched a single citizen or sober
man."
There are 1851 idiots in the
United States and DR.. S. 6. Howe
says in report to the Massachusetts,
Legislature: "Out of 1858 idiots, whose
progenitors' condition was ascer-
tanned, ninety-nine were children of
drunkards." But this is not all. BY
inquiry as to the number of idiots of
the lowest class whose parents were
known to be temperate people, it is
proved that not one fourth could be
SO considered.
What about the log, 254 insane per-
sons? Hughes L. lie Roux says:
During the last sixteen years lunacy
has increased in Paris 30 per cent.
The increase due to general paralysis
and alcoholic insanity has been so
rapid that the evil is now twice. as
prevalent as fifteen years ago. AL
most one-third of the cases at the
Depot Infrmary are due to this dis
ease, and every day it declares itself
more violently and with a more
marked homicidal tendency"
Consumption is the greatest slayer
in the world. Prof. Thos. j. Mayo in
Popular Science Monthly says: cal
coholism and phthisis are not mere
condolences, but they have relation
ship so intimate that one may be con-
verted into the other and that pull
monary phthisis may be produced by
the toxic action of alcohol on the ner-
vous system"
But it is not upon the drinker alone
that the curse comes. The disease is
sent on to the new generation in awful
forms. Again men who have been
sober men all their lives, but whose
parents were drunkards, become
wildly intoxicated at some great grief
or fear, and this without ever touch
ing liquor.
Some scientific experiments that
were being made were reported in
the Popular Science Monthly They
were upon the influence of alcohol
first upon yeast, second upon cats,
and third upon dogs Two dogs
were treated with alcohol daily and
two others we're given only water to
drink. The alcoholic dogs were soon
oftenest found mapping and would
lie down six or seven times to the
others once. The experiments proved
beyond dispute that alcohol is the
cause of great disturbances in the
bodies of all animals.
RACINE, Wis.