The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-12-06

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of alcohol leads to the weeping and
woe of women and children, TO the deg
| radiation of men, to the filling of jails,
| HOSPITALS and insane asylums, and then
| nreach as you may. All the sorrow and
4 Indebtedness, the inefficiency in work.
1 and the mental decisions that such
teaching, emanating from the ignorance
| of a past day, afflicts and darkens the
| world Mankind is today taught there
| can be no moderation in the use of a
| nowerful and seductive drug daily TAX
| en- as a beverage. Out of numerous
/ authorities supporting this statement
| let me refer to one or two. Dr. Ruth
| erford of England addressing a con-
| ference of medical men recently said
! he was firmly convinced that, it was
the paramount duty of the medical pro-
fession to inform their patients and the
/ public that so-called moderate drink
| ing could not be INDUCED in without
| damage to the offspring, and to the
| race"
| In an article on the correlation of
alcoholism, crime and insanity, DR.. c..
A. Drew, medical director State Asy-
/ lunn for Insane Criminals, Mass, says:
/ '.The instructive criminal, the habitual
J criminal. the occasional criminal and
/ the criminal by passion are not of a
kind, although the lines of demarkation
I cannot be sharply drawn. In all these
! cases, however, alcohol plays an inn
| portant causative role, because, as Sir
| Victor Horsley of England, Kraeplin
| of Germany (Heidelberg), Berkeley of
! Johns Hopkins, and others have affirm
| ed and demonstrated, the oft repeat
ed presence of even a moderate guam
| tity of alcohol in the circulati ton will
cause marked changes in the cortical
| neurons of the brain, change in the
shape of the neucleus, the disappear
ance of the granular masses, and the
/ shrinkage of the protoplasm of the cell
| body 1t seems to be a law of
nature that the most highly organized
tissues suffer first and most from the
toxic agent in the blood"
DR.. I. F. Lydson, in Chemistry of
Vice and Crime" (Cnicago, 1909. says.
! structural disease and degenerate
conditions of the nervous system I'M
derlie most of the phenomena of vice
and crime.
I Dr. Rutherford (Cantab) writing on
'sAlcohol in Disease" says "a good
deal of medicine had been built upon
the false foundations of empiricism,
which science was slowly removing
and replacing. In no direction had
that empiricism, that yelled quackery,
wrought greater mischief than in the
alcoholic treatment of disease. Ma
tons were groaning under the intoler-
able incubus of intemperance, and all
the woe, want, crime and disease that
followed in its trail. Philanthropists,
philosophers and parliaments through
out Christendom We're at death grips
with that enemy of the race, and the
medical profession proclaimed alcohol
a valuable medicine forsoothl >
The hospitals. the homes for idiots,
epiIeptics and the infirm repeated the
tale from day to day, and still alcohol
was Wanted as valuable medicine
by a profession that was cut to pieces
by it probably more than any other.
Would not the world be better without
that valuable medicine?" Allow me
Mr.. Editor to quote one more author
ity and an eminent one The recently
elected president of the British Med
ical Association at a breakfast given
to medical men at Oxford said He
thought that in the use of alcohol the
same amount of care and discrimina-
ton should be given to the prescrib-
ing Of it as they would give to the
most deadly drug with which they had
to deal.''
Let me conclude. S. E. B. says
solemn dread of doing wrong to the
dead should possess the souls of judges
and jurors Their ears he thinks
should be kept open to the bitter cry
Of the blood Rather methinks such
solemn dread should possess the
hearts, minds and souls not only of
Judges and Jurors but of all leadeps
of men and women that they do not
injustice to the Living. Justice to the
livingi Emerson says Society is in
conspiracy against every one of it's
members" Be this as it may it GER
tainly appears, Mr.. Editor, that many,
high in authority and in the influence
they WELD, are scarcely doing Justice
to the living. Speaking within the last
three months, Sir William Broadbent.
well known to the Medical world. said
'Laymen need to understand that not
only is it not necessary, but that al
cohol in even small quantities is pos
itively harmful Who" he asks
ARE to educate the public?
Firstly" he says, chose who are
strictly of the teaching profession, then
clergymen and ministers OF religion,
and last. but by no means least, our
selves, the medical profession. Our
words are as it were ex cathedra, and
in most cases implicitly relied upon.
We. who have passed the por-
tails of examinations still have to read.
weigh and retain that which is solid
from the reports of the work done in
connection with alcohol and its con-
geners." And so, Mr.. Editor from the
days of the illustrious American physi-
clan, Benjamin Rush, to our own, the
truth about alcohol, in all its seduc-
tive forms, has been told in no I'M
certain words, by eminent men lead
ers in the great medical profession but
even as bleeding was resorted to with
extraordinary frequency for over a
hundred years after Monro of Edin-
burgh denounced the mischief done by