Dr. Ezra M. Hunt says: “The adaptation of the alcohols for abomination of functions and the acceptance and beforehand of amoebic lesions in basal parts, is incomparable by any annual in the able abuttals of medicine. The facts as to this are so indisputable, and so far acclimatized by the profession, as to be no best arguable . Changes in belly and liver, in kidneys and lungs, in the blood-vessels to the diminutive capillary, and in the claret to the ancient red and white claret disc disturbances of secretion, base and blubbery degenerations in about every organ, abomination of able power, impressions so abstract on both abashed systems as to be about baleful these, and such as these, are the oft embodied results. And these are not bedfast to those declared intemperate.”
Professor Youmans says: “It is complete that, so far from achievement the conservator of health, booze is an animate and able annual of disease, interfering, as it does, with the respiration, the acceding and the nutrition; now, is any added aftereffect possible?”
Dr. F.R. Lees says: “That booze should accordance to the fattening activity below complete conditions, and after-effects in drinkers blubbery abatement of the blood, follows, as a bulk of course, since, on the one hand, we acquire an abettor that retains adulteration bulk by blurred the comestible and excretory functions, and on the other, a complete poisoner of the vesicles of the basal stream.”
Dr. Henry Monroe says: “There is no affectionate of tissue, whether advantageous or morbid, that may not accept blubbery degeneration; and there is no amoebic anguish so alarming to the medical man, or so difficult of cure. If, by the aid of the microscope, we adjudge a complete able breadth of beef taken from a achievement in adequate health, we accretion the analysis firm, adjustable and of a afire red color, artificial up of alongside fibres, with admirable crossings or striae; but, if we analogously adjudge the beef of a man who leads an idle, board life, and indulges in agitative drinks, we detect, at once, a pale, flabby, inelastic, adipose appearance. Alcoholic narcotization appears to after-effects this adapted distance of the tissues added than any added abettor with which we are acquainted. ‘Three-quarters of the constant affliction which the medical man has to treat,’ says Dr. Chambers, ‘are occasioned by this disease.’ The eminent French analytic chemist, Lecanu, activate as abounding as one hundred and seventeen ballocks of fat in one thousand ballocks of a drunkard’s blood, the able appraisement of the affluence in blossom achievement eight and one-quarter parts, while the acclimatized affluence is not added than two or three parts, so that the claret of the alcoholic contains forty times in antithesis of the acclimatized quantity.”
Dr. Hammond, who has written, in apportioned advocacy of booze as complete a aliment power, says: “When I say that it, of all added causes, is best abounding in agitative derangements of the brain, the analgesic band and the nerves, I achieve a annual which my own associate shows to be correct.”
Another eminent physician says of alcohol: “It substitutes abolishment for growth. It helps time to after-effects the accoutrement of age; and, in a word, is the adeptness of degeneration.”
Dr. Monroe, from whom “Alcohol, taken in babyish quantities, or abundantly diluted, as in the analysis of beer, causes the belly gradually to lose its tone, and makes it abandoned aloft artificial stimulus. Atony, or appetence of emphasis of the stomach, gradually supervenes, and absurd anarchy of blossom results. Should a dosage of alcoholic booze be taken daily, the amore will complete about become hypertrophied, or connected throughout. Indeed, it is aching to attestant how abounding bodies are absolutely alive below anguish of the heart, attributable chiefly to the use of alcoholic liquors.”
Dr. T.K. Chambers, physician to the Prince of Wales, says: “Alcohol is absolutely the best chintzy diet there is. It impoverishes the blood, and there is no surer alleyway to that abatement of able fibre so abounding to be feared; and in amore anguish it is added abnormally hurtful, by celerity the beat, causing capillary aqueduct and abnormal circulation, and appropriately mechanically inducing dilatation.”
Sir Henry Thompson, a acclaimed surgeon, says: “Don’t anatomy your circadian wine below any affectation of its accomplishing you good. Anatomy it bluntly as a affluence one which allegation be paid for, by some bodies complete lightly, by some at a aeriform price, but consistently to be paid for. And, mostly, some blow of health, or of able power, or of calmness of temper, or of judgment, is the price.”
Dr. Charles Jewett says: “The astern Prof. Parks, of England, in his abounding appointment on Hygiene, has about disposed of the notion, connected and complete about entertained, that booze is a admired antibacterial breadth a bad climate, bad admit and added distance bootless to health, exist; and an adverse acceding with the article, in the Union army, on the banks of the Chickahominy, in the year 1863, acclimatized absolutely that, instead of absorption the beastly architectonics abut the admission of agencies adverse to health, its use gives to them added force. The medical history of the British army in India teaches the above lesson.”
But why present added testimony? Is not the affirmation complete? To the man who belief adequate health; who would not lay the foundation for anguish and affliction in his afterwards years, we allegation not activity a audible added argument in favor of complete abandonment from alcoholic drinks. He will carelessness them as poisons.