The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-11-20
THE GREAT DESTROYER
SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE OF lNTEMPERANcE.
Alcohol Not Medicine - Dr. Kellogg
Points out the Results OF Latest and
Best InvestiCa ations--Baneiul Effect oi
Alcoholic Medication.

Alcoholic Medication.
At the meeting of the Medical Temper
ance Association at Saratoga Dr. j. H..
Kellogg read paper entitled "Thc Banc-
iul Effect of Alcoholic Medication as
Shown by Recent Experimental Observa-
tions. The basis OF DIR. kcllogg's pnner
was tho facts recently presented in the
New N9ice in the article. alcohol as n
Brain Killer" These facts DR.. Kellogg
DEVELOPED and demonstrated at length,
citing the latest and best scientific author
lties. and arrived at conclusions which he
expressed as follows:
These observations certainly have a
very practical bearing upon the question
OF alcoholic medication. If it is true that
alcohol even in small doses. acts as an an
aesthetic by erippling the neurons at the
centres of activity aud control, IL is very
evident that no positive good can he ex.
pected from its use. The same influence
which. through paralvzing the vaso-motor
centres results in dilatation of the peri-
pherai vessels. thus lessening the work Of
the heart at the same time lowers vital
tone and lessons vital resistance and i'm
pairs every organic function through the
toxic influence of alcohol upon the neu-
rons of the centres which control these
functions. Alcohol promotes sleep simply
by causing retroaction Of the neurons of
the anterior lobes of the brain through its
removing the cause of the sleeplessness.
which may bn an excess of blood in the
brain " irritability of'the cerebral cells.
1T is true that alcohol lessons the work
oil the heart but at the same time it di.
minishes the power OF the heart to work.
so that this might easily be the source of
more mischief than benefit.
"Kleefeld's experiments show that the
injurious effects of alcohol are immediate:
that as soon as the poison enters the blood
II begins its mischievous work upon the
delicate nrotoplasmic structures of the
body which are bathed bv the blood and
lymph. That most baneful effects are not
immediately observed is due as has been
shown above. to the remarkable power of
resistance of the neurons of the automatic
centres which yield only very slowly to the
influence of alcohol. a fact which is equally
trne of other poisons as WE'LL
Progressive medical men cannot close
their ewes to the experimental facts which
scientific research has brought out and
which speak in.unmistakable terms of the
toXicitv of alcohol and its uselessness in
every form and in all conditions tn which
the human body is subject in health and
disease. After centuries of devotion to the
use Of this baneful agent, which perhaps
has been more extensively employed than
any other drug the medical profession is at
last coming to recognize that alcohol is not
an elixir Of life ns supposed bv the ouack
ish Paracelsus. its promoter. but rather n
death-dealing product of micropic activity
differing in no essential particular from
other toxic substances secreted or other
wise formed by micro-orga They are
slowly learninG that vital energy is to be
derived only from food. and that we can
only aid nature in her work of cure as
we'll as in the maintenance of normal life
by the employment of those physiological
agents which promote vital activity and in
crease vital resistapce. Curative power is
not to he found in champagne bottles or
brandy TASKS: healthcving power is in the
body itself in the blood. in the tissues.
Said Dietl. the pupil of the great Rokitan-
sky. half century ago: Mature alone can
cure: this is the highest law of practical
medicine and the one to which we must
adhere. Nature creates and maintains;
she must therefore be able to cure