Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1900-01-31
ALCOHOL ON THE MIND.
Destructive Even In the Smallest
charlottesville Lecture by
Swiss Professor.

sHoNlllS liS injurious lllhuellce ON lHe
organism.
Destruction of the mind is much
worse than impairment of the organs
of the body. Alcohol affects the mind
more than any organ. All the alco-
holic beverages cause more on less dis
turbance of the mind and of the nerv-
Gus system, much the same as the
blood permeates every organ of the
body. That the manifestations Of the
mind become impaired can be proven
by the symptoms of intoXication, and
by the effect upon the ethical, the
aesthetic ideas of the good and beauti-
full. This injury is not necessarily
limited to n regular drunllarrl, but is
common in moderate drinkers; and is
seen in this way. He becomes not as
truthful as he used to be. His inter-
est in the family becomes lukewsrm,
careless about the future of the fam
lily and the children, and already at
q comparatively young age shows
symptoms of senility. lie becomes
more irritable. He may be often jeal-
Gus, always thinks he Isl right, fights
for his right and exhibits many other
signs of failure.
This alcoholic INVESTIGATION of the
human nervous system is soon noticed
from the use of small doses. The
action of the nerves becomes i'm
paired. The injury is first noticed in
that which is finest and most COM
plicated, that is, the aesthetical ideas,
the conscience and the reason. The
human will is always influenced by a
different compleXus of particularly
the conscious or unconscious feeling
Of ideas. Such persons believe that
all action of the mind is by molecular
action of the brain. Bunges claims
that even very small doses of alcohol
manifest their effect on the brain and
it's action is deranged and increased
They get talllative and quarrelsome.
The stage of talking he calls also the
motor activity, that is, a motion of
the tongue. Greater motion becomes
degrees of paralysis The first alco-
holic poisoning of the brain is the be-
ginning of grave disease. More
crimes are committed from the effects
of alcohol, particularly crimes against
other people, than from any other
cause. From GO to rs per cent. of the
criminals are more or less inebriates.
Among countcrfeiters and swindlers
there is only "a per cent. 1t is found
that acute inebriety is followed by
more crimes than from old, confirmed
drunkards. In Europe the mass Of
crimes are committed on Sunday, Sat-
urday evening and Monday. If you
enter n hall full of drunken people
it will remind you of the violent wards
of an insane asylum. The highest de-
gree of drunkenness resembles the
coma which precedes death; and often
ends in real death.
The more one studies the poisoning
of alcohol the more will one be con-
WINGED of the different predispositions
of the individual in other words, that
the reaction of alcohol varies exceed
ingly in the different cases. One be-
comes drunk by small quantities, and
the public considers him very weak in
resisting the deleterious effects of al
IN those who have good foundation
ofinherted vigor and ethical makeup,
and possess a strong will power and
small taste for drink. Persons who
apparently can bear large quantities
become stupid after a short time
Il ylv f.
ible desire for more and more alcohol
They are called "sots" who have such
desire. This intense and early de-
velopment of alcoholic craze is always
a proof of strong hereditary vice. IT
sometimes apears periodically. Some
of these are quarter drunkards"--
those who drink every three months
These are the ones most likely to be-
come incurable.
The first class are not easy to get
drunk, do not become particularly
stupid. From birth they are defective
ethically, weak in character, careless
unfit for intellectual work, and always
in great danger from frequenting sa
looms and following the courtesies Of
drinking in high society. Such mer
very easily become regular drunk
ards. But i'm the majority of others
they are really the victims of human
imitation of seeing Others drinking
whether in society or not.
The public believes that to use al
coholics will give bodily strength, il
| matt, on fhis belief
Another danger is for those who
can stand comparatively great guam
titles without becoming drunk. II
the end they, too, become inebriates
They become chronic alcoholics in
scnsibly. They seduce others who tr.
to drink the same quantity withou
getting drunk.
Their progeny always become at
fc,ted by this acoholization OF thel
own tissues.
They also show marked degree o
brain atrophy.
Poverty and misery often accelerate
drunkenness. particularly in peop'
who have been in better circum
stances As n rule drunkenness is tn
cousc of the poverty and misery
MANY other diseases follow, MS I'm
p,ir;ocnt or faulty development OF TN