Gunnison news-champion., 1902-08-29
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TO hear Ds. &. e.. Dsv.s. of CsIcaGs
aud W sasass. lectare 90 -AieoAol As<
iss efect on the humas .yssem. Tsrss
hundred people ~ere sitting er -sasA-
ing ~ the audience room. vs.ss ~
lecture began 81 5 so.
The doctor ~ an eatersAsHsa@
speaker aud .eeaea thoroughly -
home with his subject which wss 81
coarse treated mainly from the scses-
I tiiie standpoint. Eemsrkinx that he
had no preiaaiees oT malice against
anyone thai the manufactures was
no verse than the retailer sad the
salooHkeeper ns worse than the coin
munity which called foF strong drink
he went on 10 describe alc0hel ss
poison.
lie detailed bis own ex perienee with
it IN medicine. stating that after us-
ing il Tor years IN surgery aud a.
remedy under the advice Of precept-
ors aud from the custom OF praeti-
TONERS he had gradually abandoned
il entirely. Had not prescribed il IN
/ 6 years. because be foHna its effects
bad and that patients recovered
much SOONER without It's use. This
was viewing the matter strictly lrom
inf ~
any sentiment. lie would have
no objection to using n in certain
cases, for instance as an anesi betic
when no other was al hand.
The doctor then gave the character
istics of alcohol which we're To sb-
sorb water aud coagulate albamen
aud on these based his indictment of
it as a medicine or a food. Albra-
casa, the Arabian alchemist who is
supposed TO have discovered the
active principal of spurious liquors in
the | tn century thought he had found
| the elixer of life. Instead il was the
elixer of death, 1he scientific world
has been gradually finding out the eft.
feet of alcohol on tissues OF the body.
In 1851 DIR. n. 5. Davis, one OF The
greatest physicians in history demon
strated that it was not even stimu-
liant, that il lowered temperature
/ from its introduction into the system,
causing only deceptive increase in
heart action which lost in intensity
more than it gained in number Of
beats. This was later verified by
Richardson who announced that its
only medical effect was as an anes-
/ thetic. Their conclusions were hailed
with ridieule but are now generally
accepted.
/ About ! 500 Lallemand and Perrin
and Duroy by extensive experiments
/ discovered it in the animal TISSUES
and found it thrown of unchanged
from the body number OF hours
after drinking. Probably small
portion OF il is oxidized or burnt iu
the body giving it heat and force.
Late experiments of DIR. Atwater
indicate that a man can oXidize an
ounce and half of alcohol a day, but
the doctor thought this excessive and
the amount yet to be demonstrated
Its action on the heart was de-
termined by the Sphygmograph which
always showed the dicrotic pulse
after drinking and in the habituaI
drinker. This is dangerous condi-
/ tion where the beats lack smoothness
and regularity. In case of death az a
direct result OF excessive drinking the
fatality is caused by paralysis of the
heart. This action was demonstrated
by experiments of Sidney Ringer and
| Harrington and eorroborated by
Martin, of John Hopkins university.
Used as a food it neither took the
place of the carbons and hydrogen
bons in giving force and heat or was
used to build up TISSUES. The first
was shown by experiments detailed
above. although a small portion was
probably oxidizsd. However it in-
mediately diminished the oxidizafi0u
of other foods for the quantity Of
csrbon-dioxide thrown of by the
tion-was in all cases diminished. 4
] small nnaniitu of Erntnn al !. a.