Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-05-07
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NEW CURE FOR lNEBRIETY.
Alcohol Should Be Chased as Poison
and Never as Food or
Stimulant.

Dr. D. H. Kress of Washington, D.
c., in an address entitled Dyspepsia
and It's Relation to Inebriety" before
the American Society for the Study of
Alcohol and Other Drug Narcotics,
gives the following advice:
IF you have a strong appetite for
King Alcohol and tobacco and want
to be cured OF the habit, just eat a
vegetable diet for six months"
In discussing the evil effects of an
excessive diet he declared that over
eating leads to drunkenness. IF you
would not become drunkard," said
Dr. Kress, then quit eating meat"
DR., Kress declared that functional
ard organic disturbances of he stom-
aoh ere both a cause and effect Of u.s.
rs alcohol
Al forms Of alcohol are dangerous
,emedies for stomach troubles. While
.uietlng The pain and discomfort for
h line, 1t creates new sources Of
exhaustion and arrangement. All
persons who use spirits have stomach
troubles, and many remedies for the
stomach containing alcohol act as mar
cotics. covering up the disorder.
Alcohol acts on the appetite and
digestion, diminishing the nutrition
of the body, and no nervous person
should ever use alcohol in any form
as d remedy or beverage
All forms of spirits at meals are in
furious, and this is psychological
fact above all theories Spirit rene
dies for stomach diseases are con-
tradicted by scientific research and
shown to be most dangerous.
w P Spratling, NJ. D., of Baltimore,
Nd. professor Of psychology at the
Johns Hopkins university, in paper
on alcohol a Cause of Epilepsy"
said that there is no drug or medicine
known which is so prominent cause
in epilepsy as alcohol,
i acts directly in causing explosive
fits of unconsciousness, and indirectly
by cultiyating a tendency of the nerve
energies to explode in convulsive acts.
Often the periodic dnnker is an epi-
| leptic and his drink storms resemble
fit Tie spasmodic, delirious drink
er is frequently masked epiieptic.
Alcohol causes many forms Of cpilep-
sy that are not yet known, particular
Nv in crime and strange fits of insane
acts and conduct. From 90 to so per
cent. OF ell epileptics are traceable to
the use Of alcohol.
From 20 to 80 per cent. Of all alco-
holics have epileptic symptoms in
some form or other. Quite 2 large per
centage of epileptics improve and
some recover when spirits are with
drawn, showing that alcohol was an
active cause.
DR.. George w. Webster Of Chicago
president of the Illinois State Board
Of Health, in a paper on alcohol and
Public Health" gave the following
conclusions:
!. The alcoholic problem is more
{ important than tuberculosis because
it costs more lives and money.
>. II costs the United States In di
rect money over $2,000,0G0,00o.
3. 1t causes directly and indirectly
at least ten per cent. of all deaths IL
the United States.
4. 1t predisposes to infection, de
stroys acquired immunity, prevents
the occurrence of artificial immunity
lowers vitality and increases mortal
ity in all diseases and in surgical op
erations.
8. 1t lessons the power Of individu
ais to resist the injurious Influences
of extreme heat and cold.
6. 1t causes deterioration Of the
quality of mental work.
Z. 1t diminishes the power to with
stand fatigue and lessons the eff
cheney of the individual
8. 1t should always be classified al
a poison and never as a food or slim
ulant.
8. 1t is a public health and sanitar!
question and not a moral one, bu
should be treated the same as fevers
SMALLPOX and malaria and by scientific
men alone.
10. The alcoholic problem is a medi
cal one. and can only be solved whel
studied from a scientific point o