The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-08

and introduces into his lungs will event. ually kill him
 But why carry the comparison fur ther? Any one taking up Daudet's book and reading the features pointed out alongside a medical report on cases of alcoholism or morphlnism will be con- vinced of the perfect identity of the pol sons of love and that of alcohol and nor phine.
 Symptoms of Love Poisoning.
 "As thousands of hospital cases and cases in daily life show, to be in love is to be i'll, to be poisoned. The person in love is crazy to be forever in the society of the loved one he suffers most acutely under the effects of the poison when she is absent, and when she is near doesn't feel much better. His longing isn't filled; he doesn't feel free to act as good sense and his interests dictate.
 Generally speaking, the symptoms of the poison of love are almost identical with those called forth by morphine. The morphinist, like the love-poisoned man or woman. cannot live without the drug; In his eyes the drug is the dearest thing Tn the wide, wide world. He is unhappy without it, and unhappler still after ap- plying 1t. The drug exercises ever fn- creasing power over him, it's a most ex- acting mistress. though no less exacting Iilhn the girl we love.
 Love Takes Our Will Away.
 Love robs us of our will power; so does morphine; so does alcohol. Nor phlne Kills many man and woman, but US poison is no more dangerous, albeit more apparent than loves.
 Indeed, the ways of love poison are analogous to those of many diseases treated in clinical lectures day by day. 4 Q1nnBn1f@r, phine mania, love frequently leads to maniacal intoxication; the criminal col umns of the daily newspaper tell its story. l recall the cigarette fiend mur- derers of which you had quite lot in the United States in late years. Unde- veloped medical science and still more undeveloped newspaper opinion and pub lie opinion laid the blame on the nicotine our discoveries point to the fact that the poison of love, in conjunction with nicotine or alcohol, is the hotbed of crimes and passion.
 Two Kinds of Love.
 There is good wine calling forth pleasant sensations; wine that gives drives men and women mad, brutalize them.
 There are also two kinds of love.
 "A joyous and healthy love-the young love that makes life worth living, and the sorry degenerate love, that doesn't know smiles and is productive only of tears and trouble
 But It's not the prohibitionists alone who say that good wine, like bad wine Is a poison. The bacillus of love, if it strikes at the right season-under favor able circumstances as to bodily health, age md fortune-may confer incalcula- ble benefits. In a good many eases it does. The trouble is We doctors see lit- tie of such.
 "A victim of alcohol poison who had lost the sense of hearing by the misuse of stimulants said to his physician: TO hear was good-it gave me wonderful joy to hear the birds sing and my friends talk; to listen to plays and operas-but it wasn't as good as the bottles I used to drain
 After the victim of alcohol poison, let the love-poisoned person speak. The fol- lowing is from one of Bourgeois novels. I know I will be unhappy with her, but prefer to be unhappy with her to being happy with another
 Explains Power of Long Hair.
 Long haired musicians have always exercised a certain influence over woman kind, as far as their female audiences are concerned Paderewski, for instance pi oNS NtIldiulS dS lDdny uOlldTS DY the length of his hair as by the ends of his fingers. Why?
 Long hair Is a most efficient disease carrier, so much so that in some coun- tries physicians are required to wear their hair and beard to minimize the danger of transferring bacilli of contag- ion from one sick room to another.
 "As to our vistuosos, they are, one and all, excellent businessmen, even if they Flarr off foa sentiments for their chief supporters. women-it's easy to see how the love bac- illus may be transferred from them to their female admirers by way of the long hair.
 Sudden Poisoning by Love.
 Here is case of suddening poisoning by love:
 Not so many years ago I was requir- ed as medical director of the Paris hos pitals to attend to the case of beautiful American girl, who, in broad daylight, had thrown herself upon the neck of Franzni, the strong man-the same who was afterwards executed for murder.
 ''The pair met in a crowd at a street corner, flirted, exchanged a few words and the thing was done Embracing him, she cried: Take me away; I love you.'
 Her father brought her to me without delay, and after a week pr so of kindly treatment she returned to America as the prominent bride of one of her coun- trymen, to whom she had become engag- ed soon after leaving my institute. Their married life is a model one, I hear founded on genuine love, love not due to a poisonous growth lil-e that Franzni incident.
 ''The ways of the love bacillus are many Look at the outward demonstra- tions of love-making: Pressing of hands, kisses. The parties dine together drink and eat ice-cream together, sing togeth- CT, closely sit ogether-nothing easier but that the bacillus of love wanders from one to the other.
 Sensations of the Victim.
 "In my hospital experiences, I listened to many a lovers tale of woe that reads like the confessions of an opium eater" continued Professor Fleury.
 "The man of principle approaches the woman without principles out of curi- osity first; he doesn't feel exactly right when he seeks the introduction.
 Its the same with the first pipe of opium. It causes nausea, headaches; the would-be fiend is half inclined to give up just like the man suffering from the initial stages of lovesickness But they have told him so much of her wit and charms; she is such a good fellow'-the pipe has such wondrous delights in store for him He visits the lady second time he tries again. And he is again dis appointed-still. 1t isn't as bad as he thought at first. He can understand now why others succumbed to the fascina- tions of the woman and of the pipe
 After that the woman and the pipe have half won the battle. The poison quiets his nerves and again exctes them;