Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-16
Warnings of Scientific Investigation


Booze praisers can be found, here
and there, among men supposed to be
of scientific instinct and education
They are often quoted with glee by
the traffic, and not only are many ig-
norant and innocent people fooled by
them but some of them seem to feel
that they are fulfilling their mission
in human service. On the other hand
we have hosts of the ablest and most
advanced scientific minds of the gen.
Grafton giving the facts of their in
vestigations to save their fellow man
from his follies. Below we are pub
Fishing a few of the most recent
statements of men who should be lis
tened to with care:
The annual report of DR.. w A. Parker,
Medical Superintendent of Glasgow Dis
trict Mental Hospital, attributes 22.4 per
cent. of the admissions TO alconol alone
or in combination with other causes.
Zone fights shy of having to operate
upon patients who are alcoholic, because
of the degeneration of their tissues
they do not heal we'll in spite. OF the as
oeptism of the present day'-W. NC
"A person addicted to alcohol is much
more vulnerable to sypnllls. A great
number of individuals become injected
with venereal diseases simply because
they are intoxicated. man under the
influence of alcohol becomes immoral. -
Sir Victor Horsley.
81 have been astonished at the number
of patients who became infected with
syphilis while under the influence of al
cohol 1t is certainly over 10 per cent.
"A person who is actually affected by al
cohoi is in state of low resistance TO
any yirus"-Dr. McAdam Eeeles.
Cancer is twice as frequent among
boozers and London publicans as among
clergymen 1t is more rapid ana more
distressing among those who take alco-
hoL"-Sir A Pearce Gould. *. c. V. O.
''In adult life alcohol accounts for even
more disease than the ubiquitous tupercle
bacillus "-E. w. Lowry, M. r. c. s,
THE strongest man who has once taken
TO drink is absolutely powerless against
the attacks of tuberculosis. THE late
Professor Brouardei.
II am not aware says Sir Arthur
Chance, VI. D., of any medical conne &C
any in which it could not with advantage
be replaced by some less dangerous
drug" .p 80
Haryard's professor) recently said, The
e9eeptionaliy great $1,000 insane
in Germany asylums yearly whose SICK
ness can be traced to alcohol
Of go mentally defective children in
special schools in Birmingham, England
4s1 per cent. were found to nave one Q,
both parents alcoholic. or lvo norman
children from similar homes only II per
cent. came from alcoholic parents.
"Indulgence in alcohol tends to inem-
cheney; inefficiency tepds to low wages
and irregular employment: low wage en-
courages bad housing and bad environ
ment generally: bad environment en-.
courages further indulgence in alcohoL
So says DIR. c. Killick Millard, Meaicai
Oficer of Health for Leicester, England.
In a recent number of the Revue Phil
anthropique. NJ. Paul Juillerat, member
of the committee on hygiene and SAFETY
for the Department of the Seine. ana M
A. Fiiassier, head OF the Statistical De-
partnent of the city of Paris. made pub
lie the results of researches in the causes
of child mortality in Paris. These gen.
flemen attributed to alcoholism in the
dren affected with congenital debility:
which accounts for nearlv % per cent. OF
all the children dying under the age or
one year.
ner TO the Condor County Council. is also
Chief Medical Officer of two large cor
porations and has had for the past 10
years final medical word In dealing with
During the last few wears I have had
occasion TO take particular notice of
300 employees with regard to their habits.
Unfortunately the association OF alco-
hol with the brain invariably creates a
lapse to deceit and falsehood. One can
not trust these poor. weak-willed crea-
lures fthe victims OF alcohoD. One has
them no week after week"
DR. c. F. Hodge. of Clark University.
experirented unon two nairs of dogs 70
ascertain the effect of alcohol mon off
spring To one pair--Burn and T'psy-al-
cnhoi was given with their food from the
tine thew were three months of age. al
though thev were never intoxicated. To
the other pair-Nig and Tonsy-no alcohol
was given The slcoholized pair were
other two. Bum and Tipsy had Is dead
puppies ard eight deform~a. ONLY four
out nf q lived Mig and Topsv had no
puppies born dead. only four deformed.
and II nut of AZ lived
In ewing evidence before the Inter
DEPARTMENTAL Committee on Physical De-
terioration Gan41 DR. joseph Wiegles-
worth said: "hlcohol Sc an extremely no.
fert cause ~ lunaev. I can give you sta
tis+ics on the subject because worked
fhis ont recentlv for adifferent purpose
] recentlv SUBMITTED TO a careful anaiv
Admitted into Rainhill Asylum during a
reriod OF II vesrs-1s91 to 1911 inclusive
These were worted out Each individual
case was carefully reviewed. and in
doubtful cases, even II drink was said to
be the cause that was not nut down. I
without any exaggeration. During this
neriod 1851 persons were admitted, and
IN no less than 124s of these there was
clear evidence that the insanity was due
wholly or IN part. to the toxic effects of
alcohol These figures give percentage
cases admitted of 1928
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