Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-19
POPE'S DOCTOR
DISCOVERS NEW
ALCOHOL Evils
Narchiafava DemoIishes TeOry
That Small Doses Of Liqor
Aid Brain Workers.
Special Correspondence of II Sum-
day American.

Special Correspondence OF W GUN
day American.
MILAN. oct. 1S-After roaming
r session for four ConseCutle days,
urlng which 800 doctors, diversity
.-uresSars and educators rraigned
.nahOl for its terrible effect on men
and society the Anti AIcohGsm Con-
.rsss has adjourned to net again
.vD wears hence.
feature Of the congIss was a
-raure by Professor Mrchiafava,
who holds the chair of Astrological
anatomy at the local uniersity, and
Hn1 is better known asthe Pope's
insulting physician, on re pathology
+ alcoholism He reVlled to the
medical profession a sers of discov-
ores made by him and is assistants
n his clinic in Rome the effects
2 alcohol on the Ceretllum.
Great Increase Deaths.
Professor MarChiaffa pointed out
. the evils aCcruini from the i'm
moderate use of alcohol The
organs most expose to the delete
-ous effects of the bison are natur-
ally those which fir come under its
influence. he said Hence acute al
.oholic gastrit!s al later cirrhosis
If the liver.
Dealing in stati les ne said that,
whereas ten year ago the percent
age of deaths frci acute or chronic
alcoholism in Ito amounted to IA
per 1000, 600 inhDttants, it has now
gone mp a.
Returning to he purely scientific
fold. Professor MarChiafava dealt
with Tie pathological effects of alco-
Hpii-m on the uman organism. Civ
INK special Importance to the degen-
Grafton of tn cardiac musCle-the
which uffers from fatty de-
generation asa result of excessive
Indulgence inwine or beer.
From Fgenic Standpoint.
lie dWelt length on the effects
which the atse Of alcohol is likely to
4vr in prtuCiug arterio- sCierosis
ma that rrtiCular hypertrophy of
uc heart nown as beer heart"
From tn standpoint of euEeniCs.
.'w $50 gterally discussed both in
America ed in Europe, Professor
N8rchiafa5 said alcoholism was re-
-pousiDle or irreparable deteriora-
Ton, and n every case irremediably
farming ne children, who are born
with q MYSTICAL and moral stigma
which binds them throughout their
IVES an makes them candidates for
-endsugthem prematurely to the
grave
kperiments on Animals.
Pr0fsor MarChiafava said that
Huder is direction one Of his assist
ants. r. SChIhOni, Of the PATHOLOGY
raj Du,ute of Rome, has begun a
-or,es Of experiments on animals to
who alcohol is given daily One of
.ae llnEs observed is that after sew
era months of ingestion Of alcohol
.UeHdney glands of the animals
shNed signs of alteration and lie
-ius.
cry interesting were Professor
lrahIafaVa's remarks on the dele
.elous effects of alcohol on the brain.
II secuted the idea that alcohol even
II snail doses is a beneficial stimu-
ant TOR brain workers, and advised
81 sun to abstain from alcohol when
ndel the stress of hard work re-
GuUE close application.
Changes in the Brain.
TIL demonstration he gave of the
N"FAat!ng effects Of alcohol on the
'I5.1 cells, and especially on those
NJ z cerebellum and its adjunCts,
dInutd the keeneSt interest Of his
narnd audience.
H5 related that in the brains of
Pee holtual drunkards he and his as
N.Stits had observed marked changes
'' atiStnCt degenerative nature, es-
."D Ply IN the connecting muscle Of
Pee incephalOs, and that in other in
ages changes, consisting of the APP
r' Fhce OF black dots, had also been
1n3Ved in the white substance Of
.-Fraln and in the cerebral convolu-
.0s.
? these alterations Corresponded,
teSsor MarChiafava said, the fol
loo fhE physical disorders: Degenera-
OF the character: loss of the
lSe OF deCency. of love for the fam
and family life, of the sense Of
h9r and state of permanent. irri-