Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-05-04
Letters From the People
THE CAUSE OF MANY SUICIDES
AND SUDDEN DEATHS

Editor Journal-It was the first infant
breath you drew that sent enough carbonic
poison from your blood 10 enable you 10 i've
until you could draw another breath.
So you have kept IT up day and night
asleep or awake. without ceasing; breathing
out with your breath of life that same self
produced carbonic poison from your system.
And in order to live this poison must De
carried rapidly out of the blood by the breath
and the pores Of the skin every minute OF our
lives for were we to stop breathing rev
minutes sufficient amount of carbonic poison
would accumulate in our blood 10 poison the
whole nervous system. paralyze the brain ana
stop the hearts aSiCh, producing death. Inc
cause Of death would be accumulation Of car
bonic poison in the blood.
Often an excessive amount OF carbonic
poison is produced in the blood oy over
eating more especially meats and rich diets
by overlooking not so much the stomach as
overlooking the blood with more nutriment
than the cells can take UP, and when lett IN
the blood current that rich nutriment de-
composes and unites with other elements OF
the blood and forms carDonle toN i P poison
ing the blood, disturbing the hearts action,
imuairing the circulation, producing nerve
weakness, headache. backache and almost
every conceivable pain mortal is heir to;
vousness. sleepless nights bad dreams, 10
sudden death from heart failure while asleep
or awake. All caused from the excessive
amount of carbonic poison in the blood, In
some cases for many years before fatal re-
suits.
Wet dying from heart failure suiciding
from melancholy. But look at our daily
papers; almost every day one and sometimes
half dozen accounts are given in one day OF
occurrences of suicide or sudden deaths
from failure or acute Indigestion. Even
long years before IL kills. which IL surely
will do IL we continue TO indulge our appe-
tite beyond what is really necessary TO live
and feel comfortable it csushes all OF our
vital energies Of life, causing premature ola
age cross, irritable dispositions, despondent
feelings OF blues hypo. melancholy. causing
many people in splendid financial eircum-
stances to be so cross; unreasonable ana I'M
of that POISON in their blood-very similar 10
J.Ie long effects of the carbonic poison OF afco-
hoI on their nervous systemic cause their
friends and themselves TO wish they could
die.
With this carbonc poisoned blood driven
through their brain. the center OF an ner-
throne of reason, the home Of the SOUL often
from this cause alone, no doubt tnelr reas1Ti
is dethroned, causing them to murder their
best ffiends commit suicide, ana sometimes
both.
and there is no doubt a less poisoned type
who become in a chronic condition Of intoxi-
catiOn-pOisoned-that is what the word means,
when we say he is intoxicated, drunk, pois-
ontd, all meaning the same thing, and II he
could never get sober again he would be truly
an insane man: so Is every person. not free
from this carbonic intoxication, insane; Just
10 that extent Of the poison constantly irrftat-
ing their brain and nervous system, but they
do not knew IL. and their friends do not know
il, and they are too Orten severely censuTeu
for sayings and actions for which they are
scarcely responsible.
In olden times in the dark ages Of dense
ignorance they were arrested and punished
ba stinadoed. ducked in the river. and some
were drowned for being possessed OF evil
spirits (only insanity. and now how is II?
Today with just such cases they are orten ar
rested for lunacy. carried before our courts,
tried by Jury. found guilty tof whatD, SEN
tenceu by the judge. condemned TO lmpTtson-
ment for life Cor until curedl in an insHn,
asylum with hundreds Of just such unfor-
tunate associates-enough to drive a sane per
son crazy, II possible to do such thing
There Is some new Hgl@ now dawning on
this subject some very learned men, thinking
men, now assert that most every such case
goes "daffy'' from long auto-intoxication, ana
most all are tTlly of that character can very
soon be relieved and cured. restored 10 per-
feet sanity by restricting them in their diet
and eliminating all the carbOnic toxins from
their systems As a proof Of 1t. some long
standing cases Of insanity, when stricken with
cholera and by the drastic purging OF that
disease the blood and all secretion giving up
their toxic elements and the cholera carrying
off all the long retained toxins from their
system sanity was restored.
And il is nationally claimed that a treat
ment along this line of cleansing the system
and purifying the blood of all systemic poison
will cure any chronic drunkard or dope nend