The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-22
THE PSYCHOLOGY
 OF INCORPORATION Scientist Analyses the Va
 riOus Stages A REMARKABLE DRUG Alcohol Is One of Subtlest of Poisons and Has Remarkable Property
 of Reversing Evolution
 ary Processes

From the New York Herald.>
 How alcohol destroys a mans iacui-
 ties in an exactly inverse order to that or
 their acouirement has been most graph
 icsllv depicted by Dr. A. D. Bush, the
 va,, 1,nown authority on mental diseases
 Dr. Bush declares alcohol to be so- matic (body) poison which acts upon the tissues destructively and produces more
 or less acute but well marked psychoses derangements of the nervous system2 Onium. he says, overwhelms the organ ism producing collapse; strychnine eN- hausts the centers of respiration; prussic acid naraiyzes at once, but alsohol llsio- ,ouslv attacks the highest functions of the brain and mind and successfully and Tn | inverse order overthrows all the intellec- l tual faculties acquired by the eVoiutioh"aS nrocess reduces man to the level or the brute. and finally to the gutter as a mere animate being.
 l One day of heavy drinking is, accordlhS | to pr. Bush sufficient to overthrow tiie | cumulative work of ages and to resolve man into his primitive capacity or siihpie nervous response. ,,, Tn inc development of the child the emo 1 tion of shame is later acqulremeit thaii | the emotion of fear, and hence Ill tne | process of devolution or regresslon tile | forn,ar vould be sooner lost. Iillewise | the factulty of reason, first manlleseeo l bv the infant in the fourth month, IS a bioher faculty than that Of memory, shown in the second week of life. Conse- ouently the power of reasoning would oe surrendered while memory renamed ac- l five And so with other faculties Which will be enumerated presently, the hlsnest being the power of discrimination ana or | self control. :. man loses when he becomes intoxicated are his fine self control, his dscrimna- | tion and his sense of shame. Hence he raises his voice and talks inadvisedly; dls- agreements of no moment irritate nlln; he becomes voluble and indulges In hign flown rhetoric, in patriotic buncompe or in shallow sentimentality. In snort, 'alco- hol SO weakens his judgment that he can no longer distinguish the trivlal rom the important.
 Also he crows restless and walks about
 eesticulating wildly. for, as his power for
 deliberate movements is impaired, so his
 ability for expressive movements, Whlch
 was an earlier requirement., is temporarily
 increased. AS consequence besides HIS
 gestlculations with arms. shoulders anu
 body. he makes grimaces. wags hls head
 and laughs and cries by turns easily ana
 exceedingly. Next (his faculty in it's
 turn weakening, the initiative faculty ap-
 hears. He now yelps, barks and crows CT initiates ridiculously the speech of those
 about him. Then at last his attention
 wanes and his movements become more
 uncertain until no longer able to coordi- nate his muscles, he sinks to the hoor,
 where he lies twitching. and then stlil
 breathing stertorously. Thus he returns
 bv the alcoholic route to the helplessness
 of the babe.
 The superficial brilliancy of speech
 sometimes displayed by the intoxicated comes from the loss of the higher faculty
 of abstract thought and the consequsnt increase of constructive imagination With its still more inferior companion, rem.n- Ascent ina gination. But though the spec n of the drunkard appear brilliant, adorned as it is with metaphor and extravasant imagery. his thoughts lack coherence and ..ratlonality. and his seeming brilliancy soon abates and ends in unlntelligible slp-
 bering.
 ! So much for the intellectual repression,
 now for the emotional, which is quite .as interesting.
 The primitive emotions. as named by Dr. Bush in the order of their succession are surprise. fear social feelings. pugnac- ity, anger, affection, shame, remorse and lastly the aesthetic sense
 I. Now, what is the usual emotional pie ture presented by well educated and in telligent man who has taken too much""
 We show such a one flne painting
 and his blunted aesthetic sense fro- nounces 1t rotten" A friend pties his
 condition and the drunken one shows re-
 morse and shame. He swears he'll never
 take another drink and calls himself