Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-11-03
Docron Defends wmsKEY.
Alcohol Good at Certain Times, lie
Says.
CNew York Press)

CNew York Press)
That whiskey never should be swal-
lowed by a man who was going TO deliver
a temperance lecture or a sermon was a
rule laid down gravely by DR.. Thomas ].
Hills in an address at the sixteenth an
nual meeting Of the New York state
Medical Association yesterday In the AGA
DENY OF Medicine in west Fory-third
street.
Otherwise. he said. he found much
value IN alcohol.
But, he added It must be real, good.
old, well-matured juice of the corn.
Young" whiskey was an abomnation.
The paper opened with a description of
the general use Of alcohol as a beverage
and its value as food Dr. Hills said the
careless and untimely use OF alcohol was
often the cause Of its want of fruitfulness
in the sick room. and its caiamtous re-
suits on the public health. Or. HILLS as
serted that alcohol was the sheet anchor
OF the intelligent and conscientious physi-
clan when the heart was handicapped by
disease. He called 1t the drug par ex-
cellence in the whole field OF therapeutics
best able TO tide over crisis in certain
pulmonary and other conditions common
TO the bodily condition.
NECESSITY TO SOMb.
"Whiskey Is 10 some brain-workers a
necessity said he. Nevertheless, alco-
hol does not aid digestion, and the
life it will save to-day under other con-
ditions 10 may destroy tomorrow. II
does not change the nature of the indi-
Vidual. but under It's influence one man
Will develop the traits of demon while
"a kind man grows kinder.
IF bob veal. which is the meat Of q
young calf. IS exposed for sale, such eX-
posture constitutes "a crime and the often
der is punished for breaking the law. Why
Is 1t accounted a crime? Because the
very young veal Is not III for human
food
THE very same rule should apply to
the exposure for sale Of young whiskey.
Like veal. IL will be fit for Consumption
by and by, when 1t grows older Age is
the factor I'm both cases. 1t may be
stated that II whiskey were sold in It's
proper state. two thirds of the crimes
and four hfghs OF the insanity charged to
the account Of alcohol would disappear.
II is the quality Of the alcoholic product,
not It's quantity that should be CON
sideTed.
"The question whether alcohol IS a
food has been discussed by writer's on
matera modica. therapeutics, and social
economies for long time, but until re-
Gently no definite answer has been given,
as most OF the writers started out 70
prove their own side Of the question.
This was conspicuousy the case with So
called temperance doctors
PROVED TO BE A FOOD.
1--WE know now. through the expert
ments conducted by Professor Atwater
recently, that alcohol is a food, and that
II yields up It's heat and force the same
as a pound of bread or a bowl of SOUP.
and best at time under circumstances
that make II impossible for either OF the
others 10 have any value as a food sup
ply.
Alcohol under varying conditions may
transform its carbonace0us product into
a means OF heating and strengthening the
body-in fact act as fuel and force
or may be an irritant and a poison.
Electricity has created desolation in
every land OF the globe. destroying many
thousands OF lives every year. Yet on
that account nobody objects 70 Il as a
fuel nor as a light 10 illuminate his
dwelling.
alcohol, in the banquet hail. in the
peer garden, and at the domestic hearth.
makes hundreds merry for every ten Il
renders miserable and for every one IL
destroys. The man Is justified who, feel
Ing Insecure. puts up a lightning rod TO
protect his house So the man who can
not handle ALCOHOL Ia a rational manner
Is equally Justiiiod rs taking "a pledge and
attaching himself 10 a temperance So
c'tty. There ne viii have an opportunity
VITA the others 20 put himself on exhibit
uon as person without moral strength
or resolution.
But he has no right 20 denounce alco-
MOI because OF his weakness any more
IMAM De should lamD-post he ran foul