The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-04-20

cases Of the heart and Etealtn M
nerves free. Address, ltltl,A
DIR. MILES MEDICAL co.. Elkhnrt Ind.
tall before II has begun. And all this Is
due TO the oyerwork given to the man
whose established character has
brought him to the front. II, man
passes In safety the time when strength
declines without his realizing the fact,
and reaches the time when he must ac-
| knowledge It, he Is all right.
IF IL be not alcohol alone that Is
used It Is alcohol with a subtle stimu-
liant more deadly, q coca, or a kola,
which obscures; the Immediate effect Of
the medium. g5
The other hazard Is the use OF hyp-
notes. OF course, these are OF various
degrees OF potency and harmlessness.
But you win find that the man who con-
suits you for insomnia knows the list,
and has tried them all before he has
applied to you. You are very fortunate
IL you are one coal-tari product ahead OF
his experience. Acquaintance pre-,
scribe for one another, 50 that the ply
stefan is only a consultant as to the.
least harmful OF such drugs. There Is
no one of them but has been made q
habit, and the patient Is lucky to whom
morphine has not been the false friend.
We have all had patients who have had
the. bromide, the sulfonaL the trional, or
the choral habit, and II, there be hyp-
motto that does not claim Its victims, it
is because It has too recently graduated
from the laboratory. !. II 3 "
Now, granting these premises, I be-
lleve that there is, q line OF duty which
belongs to;the physician as regards his
patient whichIis clear. There Is coun-s
sci to be given, which is more like that
which his priest would give than Is
usually the function Of the doctor. I'm.
luckily, in these days when-we recognize
q patient as ours only 50 long as We are
pocketing his fee,i there is less oppor-
tuEity for guarding his Vices and his
virtues than aforetlme. But still We
have changes IL iobservant.
Mnst a bide by Ones Own Capacity.
: Zone thing. to be emphasized is tha.
each man has his own physical llmita-
tiors. It Is no criterion that some man
has been able to do more, or that. the
average man does more. He must abide
by his own capacity. Another Is that in
physical power first Is shown decline
in strength. Luckily In many things
taste changes, and nature aids man
to bear such physical change by change
OF sentiment. The boy cannot pass q
hydrant without vaulting II: but the
man walks by It TRANQUILITY many years
before he shufiles past It. Another Is
that hours taken daily from active bus
lness and devoted to muscular play,
usually, called active exercise" are not
to. be reckonet as misspent time, but
guarantees OF health; and, as corollary
to this, that each successive year the
leisure time should bear agreater pro-
portion to the time of hard work, and
the vacation should be looked upon not
as q luxury, but as O necessity; that Is
to say. rest Is cure. Another Is that
stinrulants are sumulants only and do
not add to real vlgor, but are ever pro-
ductive Of harm: while mans capacity
for work should be estimated by him
self as what he can do without the whip
and spur Of alcohol. Another Is that
for the hours Of diminished sleep which
come in the train OF increased birth
days there should be cultivated q habit
Of tranquil rest, to take their place and
give 1t refreshment. And this can be
done II sleeplessness has not It's frequent
yokefellow--worry." ~ .
DR.. Beverly Robinson said he would
refer to only. one topic Of DR.. Walkers
paper-i. e., the use Of alcoholic stlmu-
lants by persons Of more or less adj
vanced years. In many such indlvidu-
ais there were arterial changes which
were nothing more than should be eX-
pected at such IN age-wh!ch We're, In
fact. q normal expression. and the
speaker said that, in his opinion, they
would not warrant the cutting on OF al
coholic stimulants, for fear that the al
cohol might be productive of INJURY In
some organ, more particularly the brain.
Men Of q certain type, when they grew
DID,. must have n certain, amount OF
alcohol In order 10 assimilGte their food
properly. s VI
DR.. w. II. Draper said he had been
Interested in listening to DIR. Walkers
paper, which contained the sound PHI,
losophy that man Of ripe experience
was ever 1T to give. By the age Of forty
q man ought to have discovered what
was good for him and what was evil.
but people were very apt to forget. As
regards the use OF alcoholic stimulants.
to which DR.. Robinson referred, the
speaker said he did not suppose that it .
was DR.. Walkers iden to interfere with
the habits OF patients which he founc
to be beneficial TO the health Of the in
dlvidual. The habit Of using alcohol in
moderate quantities was one that most
people acquired as they, grew older, be-
cause they began to feel the encroach-
mcnt OF age, and 10 make them desist
from Its use under, such circumstances
would be altogether contraryito the
spirit OF DR.. Walkers paper. OF course,
there could be no question In regard to
the evils resulting from the continuous
use OF narcotics or preparations OF
opium, which were not so directly hyp-
notlc as they were anaesthetic.
Dr. Walker, In closing. said he was
fully in accord with the statements
made by Drs. Robinson and Draper,
that n man, as he. grew old, was Oft
times benefited by the use of alcohol,
tnken In u proper way. What he OBJ
jected to was alcohol taken ut odd
times. "a man Of forty or over was very
apt to be better for the dse of stImu-
lants tnlien with his meals, but II was
the bringing between meals that did the
harm. go
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