Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-09-15
ALCOHOL is CAUSE OF EVIL.
What Several Well Known Physicians
Have to Say in Regard to Its
Use BY Sick.

IF man takes a saloon he may
reckon on dying in about half the time
he would have lived if he had beer
say, a gardener. Dir A. Carpenter.
More than three-fourths of the dis
orders in what we call fashionable so
ciety' arise from the use of alcohol" =
Sir Andrew Clark, M. d.
alcohol is a most destructive agent
TO every organ and tissue of the body
either in a state of heath or disease"
DR.. Dickerson.
Alcohol, next to pulmonary con.
sumption, kills more adults than any
other single morbiflc cause"
IF there were no alcohol in the
world the human race would be great
deal better off"-Dr Drysdale.
"A man may drink In such way as
never to feel consciously excited or
embarrassed, yet ruin his health and
shorten his days mere speedily and
surely than the man who is dead drunk
every Saturday night. DIR. Greenfield.
Il hardly know of any more potent
cause of disease than alcohol. The
late Sir William Gull, M. d.
alcohol vitiates the blood, infiames
the stomach, overtaxes the heart, de-
stroys the kidneys, hardens the liver.
and softens the brain. DIR. N. Kerr.
LAS an agent for producing degen-
Grafton, alcohol is unrivaled."
He who uses alcohol freely and fire.
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food, is surely laying up disease and
degeneration for himself and probab-
ly for his descendants The Lancet
There can be no doubt that the
greatest source of evil In the world
is alcohol. DIR. Leonard.
alcohol, when taken as something
additional to food, is at all times peril
GUS and often most hurtful."
There is no Vita organ of the body
in which there is net introduced, soon
er or later, more or less disorder and
disease by alcohol. Prof j. Millar,
M. d.
THE great bulk of ailments that
come under my observation are trace
able to the evil consequences of
drink. DIR. ]. Rogers.
There is no greater cause of evil,
moral or physical, than the
use of alcoholic drinks"
"A very large proportion of some of
the most dangerous and painful NAL
aides which come under my notice
have no hesitation in attributing to
the ordinary and daily use of ferment-
ed liquors, taken in the quantity which
is conveniently deemed moderation"
Sir H. Thompson, M. d.
IF it were possible to annihilate
alcohol in the world, humanity would
be benefited in a degree which it is
impossible to estimate, and both in
moral and physical condition our race
would rise to higher levels. w.
Tibley, M. d.
ITO accustom the young, even up to
full youth, to a relish of even the mild
est description of alcohol drink, as
malt-liquor or wine, is one of the great
est cruelties and crimes of modern civ
ilization DR.. Timms.
alcohol, taken in what is usually
regarded as moderation, Is more or
less directly the cause Of a large num-
Der of the ailments which render life
miserable, and brings 1t to an early
close. DIR. Murchison.
1.-The immense disease-making of in.
temperance is appalling"
1.-THE largest quantity Of alcohol
which can be taken in twenty-four
hours without evident ill-effects, is one
and half ounce. THE late DR.. Parks.
The habitual drinker RECEIVERS with
fevers, and is always the first to fall
in epidemics. &C. H. Todd, M. D.