Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-12-01

/ last straw to the already over-burden
/ ed organ, causing it to cease beatln:
| forever: when the dose of brandy ma
be but the noxious fluid given by tn
hand Of the innocent poisoner, We
nevertheless making him the indiree
cause of death.
| What physician of experience ha
not seen cases of profound heart-fee
bleness, pulselessness, after a swallow
lof whiskey administered by an over
Jealous friend, the patient rallying TO
a moment or two, and then sinking in
to expedited death? For the every
where-present John Barleycorn Seems
by some people to be thought pana
cea for every Ill.
So true is this that it may be Sc
down as an axiom that the. admins
tration of alcohol in fainting or ex
treme exhaustion increases the danger
Of death. Warm water, or better tea
it safely stimulates sinking vitality
or any other non-alcoholic tiu1d
with the horizontal position near an
open window when possible, are the
scientifically approved remedies. In
deed in many cases Of faint1ng moth
ing is needed to secure restoration but
the horizontal position and repose
When these fail. strychnia is indicated
and, so as to get the immediate effect
will increase the number of heart pull
sations, but this is merely natures at
tempt to overcome increased frequen-
cy of contraction and relaxation what
the organ loses in force, by the inges-
ton of a moderate amount of alcohol
The rapidly beating heart usually
means the heart debilitated
/ It Is this temporary acceleration OF
heart action, due to alcohol, that here
tofore has been the air-drawn dagger
leading so many to destruction to sc
many false conclusions. The heart u
the man who has taken number OF
drinks, with their consequent increas
of cardiac activity, does not exercise
as much force in propelling the blood
as before the use of alcohol; he is
however, less conscious of discomfort
because the ingested alcohol PARTIAL.
para1yZeS- the nerves, having to do
with painful Impressions; hence the
intoxicated man is without care, ana
lives In a world of delusions and
dreams.
It is this inadequacy of heart-force
that makes the toes and fingers of the
drunkard so cold and his nose so red
There is not enough energy in the
heart to blow the blood with sufficient
rapidity from the nose into the gen
eral circulation, and to keep the blood
circulating with celebrity through the
extremities.
Again, in the case of collie, stomach
ache, gastrodynia, or any of the pain
full conditions due to the presence i'll
the intestinal tract of food fermentins5
or undigested, and where the indica-
tions ars for its removal, the popular
and sometimes professional remedy
for such state is the ever-present
whiskey or brandy, or the equally
ubiquitous digestive tonic" or 'biL
ters,'A always strong in alcohol. TE3s
practise, although as hoary as IT,,
pyramids, as old as the prophets, ana
as orthodox as anything in ancient OF
modern medicine, is now shown to be
a detriment to the patient, and must
also be relegated to the limbo of an
cestral errors. For the use of such a
drug as alcohol, which merely dimin
isles pain by paralyzing sensation
sit out in any way rmcYing e
wstcG adds to tie aaneI % 1.spelts.-
ng L e digestion # u nsstIlss ia
ter, is Csrtain..s not IL aeep ng VII
tie progress of therapeutics as an eA
act science.
In such cases, the instruments ot
precision are the test-tube, supple
mented by the stomach pump, whic..
shows that the presence of alcohol il
the stomach, no matter how dilute, di
minishes the secretion and activity of
the gastric juice and retards assimi-
lation. After a banquet with wine, t
subsequent headache next morning i
not So much due to the wine as to t
undigested food remaining in t.
stomach and intestines because of re
tarded digestion, consequent upon tie
effects of alcohol. The scientific rem
edy, then, the best aid to digestion a
thus shown by the test-tube and phys
iologica1 chemistry, is not brandy
wine, nor beer, but hydrochloric acid
pepsiu. and simple water; for tie
drinking of water at meals in modera-
tion. say two or three tumblers, is no.
to be condemned untried, as good wa
ter is the most valuable in every way
of all the fluids that enter the BODY
and one of the best facilitators Of as
sinilation.
THE above is only a part of an arti
cle by Matthew Woods, M. p, in til.
Sunday School Times of November 13
ts6:. The whole article is vel wortl,.
OF careful study.-Editor.I
NOTICE.
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