The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-02-22
Effects of Liquor Upon the
Body and Mind.
PLEA FOR THE HELPLESS
The Insane Thirst for Drink is Uncomfortable e.
Aid Can be Given its Victims and
Thcs, Dependent Jpn

toTS ana the people in general on the
physiological effect of whiskey upon the
human mind and body seems apparent
from the little extracts I see from day
10 day in the newspapers against the
poor human beings that whiskey has liz
its clutches. When once it's talons are
fastened upon him there is no getting
loose: he is q doomed and no longer a
self-controlled being, as the mind is un
der its influence is diseased and is no
more responsible for his acts than
maniac in the sylum.
This morning fer instance, | read that
the correspondent OF the Charlotte OBJ
server, who is at Fayetteville, sends the
following 10 his paper in regard TO the
Utley affair. MANY people in Fayette
Vile hope Utley will elude the officers
of the law and go unpublished notwith-
standing the fact the killing of which lie
is guilty was without provocation 1t
is pleaded in extenuation of his crime
that while drunk he was crazed and
therefore not responsible for what he
did. Admitting this it will also have
to be admitted that he was aware of
the effect of whiskey upon him and he
should have abstained."
drunkenness is to be an excuse for
crime, "Then drunkenness should be con-
sidered a crime under the law and pun
ished as SUCH
Having studied for the last twenty
years the effect of intoxicating drinks On
the mind and body / do not think | am
at ali egotistical in saying that | believe
/ know the effects of whiskey upon the
human mind and body and have a right
to speak in behalf of these unfortunate
beings, and therefore say they are not
responsible for their acts while under
the inHuaneo 81 is nening effects.
As - Mr.. Utl a as laborng under
''mar a potu. or il ,ium tremens The
miaI became diseased rom the effects Of
drink md he was as much crazy man
as any in the asg3ums of North Caro-
In.
WI6akeS is q drug and produces differ
on effects upon different subjects; some
ii cuiets. some q makes hilarious: some
g zes from the start producing haluci-
ne chs magiusry Yrongs and others
IL Aaothts ara usrIUces pleasant feel
ine. maginatlons, re
Clorororm. porrhao and drugs of this
h oroduee siaiisr primary effects AZ
NariFang hfekp &c becomes a dis
~ and MAJ Go longer control OF
pnetlte ud cannot help drinking ii
ore thae YOU can help eating when
placed gou
once hea one Of the best physi-
~ % thl state say he was suffering
Ia a dis tomach and was for
k4ep pafa n food. When h,
mi Get ..ou his friends he
Ela VOL. ihs ogaer and eat some
pes hila knew would cause him
sana 6t ne walked out and saw
ma cisco cd he aid he could not
stst Pc a,p cu but went to the
aek roam Of the stone and ate a guam
asE as for home for he
ne e FOR the violation.
es eh a.d and after getting
fhg Re i'd: Gentlemen, !
save. had anv ympa1fy or patience with
drunEara and er wanted them
aronna ast Geo k1o If their appetite
s anythlng like min they need all the
sgltnathg sou ear give them; for ! be-
lieva would have ten that cheese If
T baa known that I rould have died in
fifteen miaates after ards
And such is l.. era ing of the diseased
stomach Any man who has formed the
habit of drinking has a diseased stomach
and he cannot control his appetite after
the habit is formed.
once treated a prominent physician
of this State for the whiskey habit and
after relieving him said: Doctor" Che
was a periodical drunkard), Knowing
the effects of whiskey as you do and
your temperament, why Is ii you VIII
take your first drink for after you get
maj do not believe you can help it"
He answered.. Il don't know, but there
il perverted gnawing sensation of my
al a
kew. hy to throw it off by eating an
st.nIe and an orange but for weeks tho
fbins Feep1 up,l and l give up and step
trta enc of those ID dead-falls
aa q drink and then l am gone
se arl being nag helper. I'll never take
rink | am sorry to say,
thoaah ne dta A year or so afterwards
he a. on one ll lis sprees and kept
II M mutt one oyu'ng he was found
dead il bis bod. Sow no man knew
better than the Do,tor that he was
killing himself. sas n could not control
his diseased stomach which caused
craving for w'iskey. aud this causes
diseased mind.
Whiskey after q while brings or imagi-
nations and haluclnatiOrs and ctuses
man TO do things he would sAIdder at
il himself
i
Charlotte wishes to make drunkenness
crime punishable with the whipping
post. Now l am confident Mr.. Graham
has no idea of the effects of whiskey on
these unfortunate beings. After the
whiskey habit is formed the suffering
of that diseased mind and body is far
greater than any flashing that could be
enforced. Fer instance. not more than
four or five months ago l had man
under my treatment and he suffered a'i
tne fortunes imaginable. | thought he
would die in spite of all that could be
cone for him; called in brother physi-
emn and he too thought he would slip
Though our hands, but after a while we
teiaed him through and few days later
he wes getting better and Knew what
ne had passed through. He said Doc
, tor I am changed man and YOU will
Z -. ma IN fha streets aaaju n the