The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-03-16

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cohol is burned. Here We're two discov-
cries that seemed to disproye Liebig's
theory, and then following these short
ly came another the testimony of the
smygmCgraph. The SnlYgmograph is an
instrument consisting of spring, PEN
ell, pad and paper, which can be fast
ened upon a mans wrist in such a way
that every motion of the radial or pulse
artery is registered by the pencil upon
| the paper; it registers not only the ire
quency but also the strength or force OF
| the pulse, it's energy. The careful eX-
periments of DR.. N. J. Davis, of Chica-
go, with this instrument show that for
j a few moments after a glass of brandy
has been swallowed the pulse is in
| creased in force and frequency; but
| that very shortly afterWard there is
corresponding depression. so that it is
weaker than at the starting point; this
| instrument cannot err. When men
take other foods the smygmograph
shows an increase of force with no re-
action or depression We claim that
| the experiments of Professor AtWater
| have not proven any of these three
| tests to be false or misleading, and that
as a true scientist he should account for
his failure to do so publicly.
| If by his further experiments he can
explain away these objections, the tenn
perante people still have a strong tower
into which they can run; and which is
both invulnerable and invincible! And
that is, that his experiments covered
only limited scope only single step;
that they did not touch the influence OF
Alcohol upon the circulatory, and nerV-
Gus systems, which must always be TAX
en- into account in determining whether
the full and real action of Alcohol on
| the human system is that of food or
| poison. And this is the Gibraltar into
which we retire and hurl at him our
defiance! What do | mean? Why, sim
I ply this that when a man swallows
glass of brandy or whiskey it's first &C
| tion is that of an irritant, the whole
system recognizes it as poison, and
| tries to get rid of it. The hearts ac-
| ton is increased, more blood is sent to
| the surface than is natural, the Whiskey
| flush appears, and If more blood comes
| to the surface, more heat must also
| then the narcotic paralyzing effects be-
| gin upon certain nerve centerS; the
vase motor nerves of the skin are par
| alyzed; and when these nerves are par
| alyzed the blood vessels of the skin oil
1 late enlarge, and all of the extra heat
which the professor claims is generated,
radiates away, leaving the vital organs
| colder than before it was taken, which
tallies exactly with the testimony of the
| thermometer and the smygmograph.
| The reason why the surface blood YES
sells enlarge, causing the whiskey flush,
is because these little vase motor nerves
follow the blood vessels everywhere
and control their dilation and contrac-
ton. In the face of the experience OF
the nineteenth century, it is worse than
heresy for a man occupying the post
ton of a representative of the great
M. E. church in one of its leading theo-
logical institutions, to say that man
can take three ounces of Whiskey,
which is equivalent to two ounces of al
cohol, daily without injury. Who sup
poses that one could see any traces of
its injury in from four to twelve days
in a man shut up in box. 1t is the
men outside the box who will suffer!
| Has this good representative Methodist
| forgotten that the Bible states explicit
| ly that "At the last it biteth like ser
| pent" etc A man need not be pro-
| fessor of chemistry to know that far less
| than two ounces a day has for a centu
| nv been proven sufficient to create the
| fatal appetite for more, and by heredity
| to cause dipsrnania, epilepsy, st. Vitus'
| dance, etc. in succeeding generations,
| besides running the body and soul of the
original investigator. If the public
| wish to know the truth of my. state
ments do not go for your information to
a. few red-nosed rum doctors who like
this food too well themselves, or to doc
| tors whose noses are not red, but who
are too busy to investigate such mat
| tiers, and who have probably never CIV
| en- a month of their lives to the scienti-
| fic study of the question; but rather let
them listen to those who have shown
their interest in the bodies and souls of
men by life-times of original investi-
gation-men like DR.. Benjamin Ward
Richardson, of London, England; DR..
N. J. Davis, of Chicago, and score of
Others; neither let them depend upon
the opinions of a few leading ministers
whose opinions may be sound upon the
illogical questions, but many of whom
would not know vase motor nerve
from blood corpuscle if they saw them
side by side.
To those who desire such informa-
ton am prepared to give the names of
forty or more professors of physiology
and chemistry, presidents of national
and state medical societies, army sur
geons, editors of medical journals, who
take precisely the grounds which
| give in this article, and which / have
| given in twenty mine states and terri
tories to eight hundred thousand citi-
zens Of this our beloved land, and am
prepared also to show that Professor A.
himself, in private conversation, has
admitted, be it said to his credit, that
Gwen if alcohol be oxydized SO as to
| become a food in the sense Of being
heat-producer, it Is not economical,
| healthful or in any way desirable
| food and is an excellent thing for peo-
pie in good health, and especially for
young people, to let alone" These are
his own words, and if he would only say
them in public as far as the curse of his
! public reports have gone, we would for
give his terrible blunder; but this is
| what We cannot understand. That he
does not, but rather insists that the
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