The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-21
DR.. CUSHMAN ON EVIL
EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL
Editor, Pensacola -ournal.

Editor, Pensacola -ournal
Alcohol is the. active principle of
spirtuous am malt liquors. All spirit-
nous and malt liquors contain more
or less of the poison called alcohol.
Like tobacco, it checks the waste of
the body, and so acts as negative
food The poison alcol Is pow
erful Stimulant, and often sustains
the vital energies when at low ebb.
as in sickness, or spurs them when
tagging, as in old age. So subtle and
dangerous is it's influence on the body
and so great is its liability to abuse,
that it should not be used even when
prescribed by a competent and con-
scientiouS physician TIE indiscrim-
mate use of spirituous and malt
liquors, both as a medicine and a
beverage, is the curse of society. Alco-
hol applied to the roots or the stems
Of plants destroys their life 1t is
poisonous to every animal applied
TO the body OF a nerve it sparalyzes
all OF its branches, and to the Drain
IL lmpalrs sensation and voluntary mo-
ton. Injected into the veins in a con-
centrated state, 1t coagulateS the blood
and diluted 1t causes intoXication.
The latter effect is seen in all animals
that have taken the poison alcohol
into the stomach, and according to
the dose, 1t produces excitement, stu
por or death When animals are kent
for a long time intoxicated. thew nre-
sent the same characteristics as bu-
man drunkards The chief difference
is that after short experience their
instinct impels them to refuse the
poison, which the intelligence of man
does not prevent his craving, although
1t destroy him.
A merciless logic and a nerve-rack-
ing picture of disease or degeneracv
Is presented by DR.. A Joffroy, in the
Reone Scientifique and is a revela- |
Lon or the fearful sin or drinking the |
poison CalcohoD which is the active |
principle in all spirituOus and malt !
liquors. A large number of diseases
prey only On those that are pre6is- |
posed, and the preGisposition is proved |
10 De generally due to alcohol. Es-
Declally in mental diseases the effects /
of alcohol are noticeable Poisons
even attack the brains of the Dredis-
posed only along the lines of here :
ly' Inc general type of drunkenness.
noroSeness, hilarity, Quarrelsomeness
II Srlef, Is preixed in individuals by
Summing up his argument, DR. loft
'oy says: L repeat again that. in the
creation of these new morbid anti
udes, alcoholism stands preeminent
iolng more harm and counting more
1ctims than consumption. Alcoholism
n fact. not only affects the individ,
lal, but its effects are continued To his
descendants. One cannot with innnu.
lty, De the son OF an ALCOHOLIC. AIco-
Iollsm begins with the father and
trikes down the children, anu general.
the action continues, until in the
ourth and fifth generation it has de.
troyed the family. But before this
nal result IS reached, the alcoholics
no their descendants, are, accord5ne
circumstances, hurled into disease
ladness or crime. filling our bosn,,
ais, asylums and jails Blind indeed
re those who, ignorant or the dan
ers OF alcohol, see only a source of
evenue. God has said in His how
NV. and the statement holds good
ccordlng TO science: Il will pnnisb
le lniquity of the fathers unto the
1lrd and fourth generation
II. C. CUSHMAN.