The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-08-11
:. M. FARR, President.

before the Woman's Union of the
Church of England Temperance
Society, May 4, 1905. Sir Fred
erick is physician to King Ed
ward.
The point with regard to alco-
hol is simple enough. 1t is, of
course, distinctly a poison, and
it is poison which, like other
poisons, has certain uses, but the
limitations of the use of alcohol
should be as strict as the limita-
tions of the use of any other kind
of poison. Moreover, it is a Gu
riously insidious poison, in that
it produces effects which seem to
have only one antidote alcohol
again. This applies to another
drug equally as insidious, and
that is morphia, or opium. Un-
fortunately, the term poison is by
no means an exaggerated one,
when it is realized that with al
cohol as drunk by the majority
of the poorer classes there is
mixed a virulent poison in the
form of fusel-oil.
There is no Disgusting the fact
that alcohol is year by year less
used by the medical profession.
1t is said that it has a certain po-
sition as medicine, and no one
will dispute that, but looking
back over hospital drugs for the
past twenty-five years, there is
no question that the use of alco-
hol is emphatically diminishing.
Let us take two or three points
and remember that Tsam only
speaking of the very there can
use of alcohol. In tho m just a lit
tie tie befoGr9el bfG9ls g saysdl. 1t is. as the
french say, an aperititf appe'
: tiser. and helps Digestion What
are the facts? First of all, no ap'
r annetite needs to be artificlally
8 Stimulated. If the appetite wants
: food it clamors for it: II there Il
f no appetite, there is no nee'
Y for food. Therefore there is NJ
f need supposing the belief Wer
e true So on that ground l q
= not think there is much to q
d made out for its use. :,
D. Then it is said that 1T
r. strengthening, and that it give
s. great working power. we he'
re a great deal of this IN the aov' M
h. cacy of British beef and pee
10 That sounds very we'll, but let
view the facts. Alcohol, cu1
re onslv enough, modifies certa
ut constituents of the blood IN t
a nourishment of the body. i
hit process that underlies the pulI
IS, ing up of the human II, frame
mt very @ much modified. The O
ere mt for carbonic acid is We
os- much lessened, with the res
ose that the drinker at once becon
me ;ll-nourished = obviously so:
the man dreams of going into ira
of mo and taking alcohol. He m
,ec- reach the acme of physical I
oS tecClOn, anu Ciio0 ii'0
out alcohol.
f a # has a somewhat stimulat
eem effect, and that is the unfo o
laps nate part of it. The effect, n
!: IN ever, lasts only for mom
IN a and after it has passed away
rom CAPACITY for work falls enorm
But " II does this: 1t brings ur
ging reserve ~, forces of the body
vt be throws them into action,
lire- the result that when these
used up there is nothing TO
,u, back upon. It's effect is pre-
Err. " like general throwing
hulk of his army into the
Ut and then bringing up, as Ia
Der he can, all of his reser1Tre9' we
that throwing them in also. I'm
mediate effect may be lml
III i've, but the inevitable res
YES, AS a work producer it
1, D. ceedingly extravagant, ane
all other extravagant meas
~ od- leads to a physical bankr'
anr;ck 10 1t is also curious that troop
IL, not march on alcohol. Nv
i ;bI,,rch I YOU know, with the relief c
fhot moved on LadySmlth,