Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-11-08
DOOM OF WHISK Ely.

DOOM OF WHISKEY. .,.a,.u-
It may be thai an. Intoxicated onion
or an inebriate turtle IS to pave the way
for the cure and prevention of the eY ila
of'dtipk! Now comes to the city Dr.
Frederick w. 'D'Evelyn, of Sit. Lakes
Hospital, San francisco, advancing q
plan TO- arm All children. against tenn
perance ip. later life. just as they are
armed against, smallpox. Then. says
the theorists, a. long farewell 70 Johp
.Do,yop. iks;re know" "" b.. D'Egelyu said
TO ms yesterday, ''.that the effects OF
one Jag may be detected three months
afterwagd?sH FL diqp't mean the whirl
wind. order, of lag, which breaks win
dows, climbs, and leaves landmarks o!
destguetion all along the line, but just
the, ordinary. -, kind. The effect, ne
meant, could be-, detected, not in the
scepery !, but in the, blood and the ner
vpps., system, II, three months after its
heagsr has Rscops sober. ~, ..... 81,
ID ganerstiop,n he said, is dehydra
aion4n, This. he explained, n ant that
the ordinary, symptoms Of degeneracy
IRE trsc:sable 10 hereditary or acquired
alcoh hoIism, ,antd alcoholism is due to
ehe,s s8sGt .pf, alcohol upon the water in
70 ,siHh,s cure LIE inieebriale or for5ify cbil
foysyer esibs1, drink Dr.. D'Evely1 pro.
poses, 70, administerM-says, indeed, he
has. already a 1mibisterel with marked
succe- -s-what he calls eqlisipe or a pre-
paratio1r from the blood Of q horse
which has .heen fed, ppon alcohol until
it has become ? regular topper. ...,.a..,
Dr.. D'Eyelyn is no ordinary. pracl!
TONER, He. has an eye for the novel,
and his, experiments, be Gays, have
covered remark able field. - 1 '..".
He has watched tenderly over into1i-
Gated potatoes and, beets, for instanc-,
marking, with care the vagaries OF
those Vegetables as they acquired Their
Toad. Horses he has taught to drink
By the, ,sc9ge, and rabbits, and birds and
flowers; >, Men, he remarked, he had no
need 70, teach, 60. ~,
And now, after years OF experiment
ing, the doctor, who has come 70 New
|, York to, examine the hospitals here,
saws he announces with confds1ce that
II lis advice be heeded the toperwill he
wee0ed out of the race and the chief
cause Of degeneracy will disappear.
II made q horse intoxicated when |
was a youngster on O western ranch, !"
Dr, D. D'EYelyp said yesterday at the
HOTEL Gerard. "t'r had just come out
from Scotland. Ny folks thought it
i&Tonid,bs about two bits cheaper to
Send me to, America than to give. me n
f1pera1.' Well; when I saw the horse
under the influence9 of liquor Il had
something like, All 'iosliiration.9. i ehad
been taught to regard en- inebrists as
uecessarflyn ficicug, self appointed vic
tim JuBut the. horse led me to consider
that as it was 9 noe a self-consciou5 be
ing the alcohol must have had some ef-
fect upon the. tissue. ~ - : EAYHS7
- At FIRST the doctor brooded ,in' vain
over hisinebriate horses and his hilari-
Gus vegetables. The idea would not
come. Butvhefonnd, it one day when
he watched under g. microscope the
scsp p6alops ,condaet Of 9 colony OF pro-
toplasms.. = When ,alcoEo was mingled
with the, water in which; they lived
these blo9dless, organisms showed I'M
mistakable symptoms Of over erin lndui- dr
thus, s1itlbs, 1,tbss, Doctor argued, if gymp-
toms of,tbe same. kind were shown by
niep~,and the. lower order Of animal
AID the mere ell life, it was the water,
not the, blood which was affected IN ell
Step 'by step, therefore, he worked
4long, be explained, until he fonclnded
that, the, cure or preventive must be
6 ,meth ng based upon the principle OF
ysccinaiion. His system is TO apply
,aIcoholized,, blood to blood, deteriora-
ed by alcohol or to pure blood, With q
view to rendering children immune.
DR.. D'Evelyn was ormerly in charge
of. clinic, in San francisco, at whic2
diseases, OF children were treated. Re,
Gently, be says, he was at the head OF
the Red Cross staff which cared for sol
diers who were i'll in California. He
added that he was with the British
1,ferces during the Zulu war in Pretoria
HHI believe,F he said, .'that, inocula-
ton against inebriety is q duty to chill
I drep, whether there is hereditary
I tsint, or not, I do NOT know how the
substance, ]. use renders children i'm,
| Imune and cures the ordinary topper. ]
only know that it does SO. -. -
Ordinary cases of alcoholism can be
| treated SUCCESSFULLY. ! do not believe
every yesNySc case can be cured. But the al
| i{mSrp,ortant {Sr, thing is to treat children Sc
that generation after generation shall
epqrer until There is, piotS only no pre-
| disposiiion to drink, bnt that the evils
due 70 drink shall be removed.
TThee.J old saying was Blood is lie.
IiT saw Water IS life. Alcohol dehy-
! dFastes tie blood, and the man aad NJ nls
I effsnriing iin1gsfaa are no logger normal beings;o -
he explained x his experiments, Lead
ling up uHp 7 to mantle administering 0,
alcohol to thirsty o onions, gay old ! cate
roy ysteringl pigeons careless na sg!.ieS !; :
/ protoplasms-, ;1FinsllyS,nlHe F t9ok an ole t
ssronnder,i Stopping his whisk5 short Fl
and applying eqnisipe, He says .11t I1t
man cut John Bsrleycorn dead: h'
adds that the craving f9TTF dgyi9ak Is q fpia 9o
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