Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-04-01
The Poison in Beer.

The Poison in Beer.
National Temperance Advocate: One
Of the Injurious and dangerous ingredi-
ents said to be used in the manufacture
of beer, especially irritating to the kid
neys, and a fruitful source of kidney
diseases, is salicylic acid. Under a law
forbidding harmful adulteration. its use
in beer making is now prohibited in
France. A verdict has lately been given
by the correctional chamber of the Paris
court of appeals in an appealed case from
a lower court, which concludes by saying:
considering, finally, that the danger to
public health from salicylated beer is now
demonstrated by science, that salicylic
acid is a veritable medicament, some
times useful often dangerous, the
amount of the dose of which must be
carefully directed and watched by a man
with a knowledge of chemistry, and the
administration of which must not be
abandoned to tradesmen, acting solely
in the interests of their trades; that also
the buyer finds, in the injury which may
be caused to the health by the employ
ment of this pretended agent of preserva-
ton, which is unfermentable, only on con-
dition that it is employed in large doses,
or at least in repeated doses new and
grave element of prejudice; for these rea-
sons the court, adopting generally the
views of the judges of the First Instance,
confirm the judgment appealed from" 1t
IL understood that American brewers are
in the habit Of using this injurious,
disease-producing acid, now prohibited in
France, in the manufacture of their beer,
especially to add to it's keeping quality.
A Warning to Smoking Fathers.
Apropos Of your paragraph, "A Crusade
Against Tobacco" in recent issue. may
I give you, in as few words as possible,
my recent experience with tobacco smoke?
1t may be warning to others. l have
ave oh hy.i,y 10 1rirI M va txyn
years old; fair-haired, blue-eyed pet,
who was as healthy as the birds when
she was horn. For more than year
pAst-ever since she was old enough to
be less in the nursery and more with her
father and me-she had allied myster-
iously ! could not say she was Ill, yet
she was never quite well. l was kept in
q continual anxiety about her. The symp-
toms were entire loss of appetite, con-
slant complaints of sickness, stomach and
digestion out of order.
Last August / took her away by myself
TO a country town, where we stayed
two months After the first week she ate
and drank and played and slept and
laughed, and kept me continually enlarg-
ing her clothes. / took her home-not so
pretty and delicate in appearance, but
ROSY and robust. In one week all the
old symptoms reappeared loss of appe-
tite dark lines under the eyes, listless
ways restless nights. Some one sug-
gested that the neighborhood did not
suit her. and l was cogitating how to
take her away again, when she caught
q severe cold and was confined entirely
to one room for three weeks She re
covered her general health completely
while shut in the nursery Appetite,
spirits, sleep returned. 1t could not
be the neighb, God. After her cold she
Joined us down stairs, as usual, two or
three times day. In less than a week
-. 4 IN 6aSs-
pair.
For nearly three months 1 racked my
brains about drains, wall paper. milk.
water, saucepans, and everything in vain
the child slowly wasted away. In my
agony of mind noticed one day that far
from outgrowing her clothes, as had ex-
pected, they were too large for her. The
little thing was not eating enough to
keep up her strength, and we could not
coax her to eat Yet she was not really
sick; she ran about and played in a quiet
way, and seemed we'll enough to those
who had not seen her robust.
Suddenly my husband was summoned to
the country. A week after he had gone
the child began to eat with eager relish.
In a fortnight she was her own SELF full
of happy, childish spirits.
''FIer father never saw her like this"
remarked one evening when she was par
ticularly merry; and then the truth flashed
upon me- 1t was this tobacco that upset
her. He has been away for a month and
the child's limbs daily grow firlner,
rounder. and she is one of the merriest
and healthiest of children. He always
smoked after breakfast and after lunch
with her III his room, neither of us dream
ing it was injurious to her.
But for his providential absence this
time. I doubt whether it would have oc-
CURED to me, and we might have lost our
darlington she was wasting sadly. 1t
was acing like slow poison upon her.--H.
H. in Pail Mall Gazette.