1. health and fitness
2. disease

\
and
by almost
every
familyin
the
nation,for has
it not had its
nearlyevery hearthstone ? What heart is there
with griefand anguish for some
loved
that has not been wrung
with remorseless
that has been carried down
one
certainty
this
in
horrible maelstrom,
to be swallowed
only to be
up
lost sightof in an earlyand dishonored grave. And yet high
and low, rich and poor, alike,
pay it homage.
The
high-bornlady or gentleman think they must have
of spirits,
wine to produce hilarity
only to be followed by
and stupidity.The
take
laborer thinks he must
dullness
to give him
strength to endure fatigueor coid on
spirits
feeble,cold and helpless.
exposure, only to find himself more
to them
The sick have it recommended
their
by
phyfrom
victims
Hician to make
with
them
well ; the well drink
each
other's health
it,and sickness follows.
plying its delusive and destructive
oh
Altar
fascinations among
society. At the Communion
horrible hypocrisy!it is blessed by the priestas the representative
Precious
of the
Blood,"that which all Christians
In the banqueting hall it is used as the
do most
venerate.
choicest offering
in which
emblem
of our
to pledgeour
fealty
and friendship
in response to the time-honored
anew
toast.
At the marriage feast it is the wine cnp with which
the good
wishes and hopes of future blessingand prosperityto the
couple are expressed. At the birth and christening
young
new
hopes are pledged with it,and at the waking of the dead
its foul presence is againfound,often turningthe placefrom
It is
everywhere
found
"
"
a
solemn
and
concourse
the
into
a
bacchanalian
battle-field hearts
riot.
boat
In the
room
ball-
quicker, nerves
with a strange,dreamy,weirdglisten
grow
like* expression
and many
through its influence,
a stronghold
on
unsteady,and eyes
/
of
virtue,or honor,
its subtle
through
who
tread
now
result
but
of
diseased
a
also to
It touches
It
earth
for
millions
weal
yet
or
to
woe,
lost
the
but
or
won
millions
it is
now
come.
he
father,and
the
military,has been
not
only affeets
as
power.
this
unborn
affecting the
It touches
well
as
propagates an offspringthe
predisposednot only to inebriety,
gemiy
imbecility.
healthilygenerated
dishonesty, eccentricity,insanity or
the
mother, and
otherwise
an
the diseaseoffspringimbibes, with the very nectar of its life,
but
cate
surely upon the deliproducing narcotic, acting silently
nervous
system, preventing its growth, predisposingto
disorders
and
stomach
nervous
complaints,and laying,as
believe,the sure foundation of an uncontrollable desire
many
for strong drink
It touches
narcotics.
or
also affects his mental
The
I.
""""
and
of
prophecy
Allegory,
yet
and
men
"
Satan
hath
Amid
And
How
centuries
the
its tens
the
long
ago.
!O
Vide
the
than
great.
ibis fair world
foe.
of
below
men
thousand
hurled
?
delight to dwell
giddy throng
share, alas
more
to their
! shall
Lord
shall
man,
Spirit,"*given
ajffluent and
the realms
long
of
in
but
the
fulfilled,
tion,
destrucown
blindlyon
the distinguished
with
its killing,under
on
of the
ravaged by
Into
How
Earth-born
**
Council," has been
long, 0
Which
Eight
the
in
patronage
*
and
alcohol goes
Be
physical condition
moral
being.
it not, but go
see
How
the
only
not
?
! a drunkard's
Lordl
p. 7.
ho^
hell ?
long?
6
How
long,0
Lord
1 shall Satan
rictims of his
The
bend
Who
greet
"*
will,
before his feet
themselves
sing his praisesstill7
And
rejoice
long shall fallen men
With
revelryand song,
And
disregard Thy warning voice ?
How
long, 0 Lord 1 how long 7
How
long, 0
How
Their hands
children
And
the
thing
damning
low
/
7
men
defend
soul-debasing wrong,
This
thus
Tempter's power extend
long, 0 Lord 1 how long 7
How
the
long, 0 Lord
enemies
The
Who
curse
long shall Christian
How
How
in bitter woe,
laid their father
Which
And
shall parents wring
Lord!
greet with
of
I shall there
7
arise.
weal.
scorn
the widow's
cries
orphan's faint appeal 7
forsake the right.
long shall men
And in their lives prolong
This social curse, this moral
blight 7
The
Jb^
How
flow
long, 0 Lord
! how
."*i
V
long 7
sV.:l'ji
m
SATAN
Once
COdNOIL"
time, far back
a
upon
Power
IN
fire sat
in the remote
council
Air, called a
Lucifer himself,and
of the
ALLEGORY.
AN
-
past, Satan, the Prince
in Pandemonium.
his awful
of the
his throne
Upon
of
brow
gleamed a bnrning diadem,
that glowed and flashed like Hying lightning in the murky air. Myriads
rank
of '* Principalities
and
myriads of fallen spirits"rank
upon
upon
hall
All
of audience.
forms
of evil,grim and
Powers," thron(2redto the
/
horrible,
gathered around
they
in that
sat
the
^prhile
Then
rose
as
and
when
points,and
born
and
I cannot
Most
how
is be
so
from
sent
we
bring
shall
who
this,our
royal purpose,
thereof,and a seat
Thus
spake
the
ruin
them
give
upon
to
to
while
counsel,
that
:
me
serre
we
tempted
have
tried
him
at all
watched
by
over
destroy a single soul.
spiteHeaven's Monarch.
take
counsel
of your
earth, and
upon
each
oifer strongest
his
mind, and
to effect
means
of the earth
dom
wis-
the inhabitants
and
forever I "
right hand
to
best
they
Speak ye,
give the dominion
hell
spake
who
dwell
woe.
and
to
apart,"matoh-
star
influences,and
we
lighted up,
scene.
thus
have
we
together
mankind,
pit of
at my
fiend,and
that
a
know
! Ye
scarcely can
him as I would,
this
I will
like
dwelt
; Listen
you
wisest
the
orer
bidding, and
my
by holy
in
that
called
best
'*
of man,
hedged
above,
vengeance
may
to
do
race
sulphurous flames
infernal multitude
to the
Silent
blazing star.
a
canopy
rule, who
to
around
the
mighty
a
Almighty
the
upon
chiefs,I have
afterwards
to him
the
most
glut my
noble
hall,which
Potentates, who
yet
good angels
"V
Satan"
thwart
ye
like satellites
like
hung
in power,
subtlest wiles
our
^
smoke
up
Princes
him
illimitable
lurid
loss in evil
upon
its inmost
resounded
centre
with
plause.
ap-
s
Then
rose
"
spake
I claim
throned
offered
the
"horrid
n^
KUlIUj
\k
I
will
ObC.
make
,"
"
it
"
t
I
"
""
that
the
am
Qive
wide
one
"
powers,
prize.
heart of the first murderer.
and
king," besmeared
with
blood
of human
:
chief of many
O
war,
Moloch,
up
and
sacrifice,"
me
the
embattled
the dominion
Aceldama.
"."
led
seraphim
I
""
"
of
will
"
the earth, 0 Satan
sharpen
""
to
the
spiritof cruelty. I hardened
.","
the
assassin's
"
"
"
8
applause,bad the
seeming,but
Scarce, amidst
Belial
arose
the fairest
"
spake
"I
his seat, when
aspect, eloquent in speech, and
of Discord, without
spirit
the
the task to rule tho world.
he
and crueltycould never
be.
spread all false reports and set
man
against his neighbor,and darken
anarchy, conflision and hatred shall arise
every
the
counsels
and
fillthe whole
of the earth
the dominion
^'Let
v'be
tates.
poten-
thus
war
me
I will
till
^
peopled With the souls
ebjtfflienMammon,
'heaven ; '^
arose
buHti Listen
to
"^tofen.Give
inakemen
t
and
taken
the subtlest of the fallen
:
am
Be mine
'^
form
in
Graceful
fierce Moloch
withal
Thus
of
said
and
dominion^ver
me
thou
and
spoke Mammon,
shall
^
least of all the
knowest
them, and
fools."
lunatics and
earth,"c.
realms
spiritsthat
fell from
:
Satan, for
0
me,
mine, 0 master, and thy
l**
men
*"the meanest
and
be
of the nations)
s'. i.'^"^
";
my
'
"
the
upon
be empty.
power
hell shall
never
I will
/""';"";
a;# h^' paused,Satan
of
sons
,^ ; i^ ;"*;
"grinned horHblya gihast.
"-i^jfltniie"^
upon his st^rvant.
Then
rose
up
^''"0thou
arch
avalanche, the
'
kBd spake thns
Ariamnes,the Destibyei't^,'
ruler of the damned, listen unto
me!
and famine are
earthquake,the pestilence,
The
volcano, the
mine.
Be it mihe
-jU'iu^^uHr
'to rule the earth.
V'' "Be
:
.
.
task,0 Satan, to rule the earth for thy gloryand mine."
^
XoUd
the
plaudits as the fiend sat down, and the rest obsequions
rang
should be appointed ruler of the
not
doubtingthat Ariamnes
"gave place,
mine
earth.
The
the
'
tumult
hushed
was
and
all waited
intent
their great Master's
"decision ; when, suddenly,from a beetlingcliff,
far out iti the burning lake,
^
arose
a blue,lambent
which, while they gazed, took shape,a horrid
flame,
and stood
''fifaape;
It
'
clad
was
before the assembled
itl vesture
with
wet
-^
fiends.
blood;
the
gore
'
"
"'/^'
its
beavylfrdm
fiung
'
;
matted
locks,and the fierciestfires of hell shot from its burning eye-balls.
'"fiVenJ^atanstarted and turned pale with fear,and hell shrank with horror
and
i^^
dread
^* Ha
not, powers
'^
^
^
amaze.
I ha 1 ye fear
of
a
claim
am
an
earth-born
and
spirit,
come
years, but I aiu now
the offered prize. Fear not, 0
thy dark
earth,and
of the
sons
of men,
among
Ye know
me
have long,hid
you
to
yield
and
Satan,but listen,
for
none
hath
power
and
and Mammon
Moloch, and Belial,
they Scarce know the alphabetof wickedness.
dominions.
Atiatnnes,prbmise mtkch, but
"
hissed the horrid monstei'.
thousand
be ruler of the
like tne, in all
then 1 "
darkness,for I
myself; aye for
and
allegiance,
let me
me
*
9
and
their powers
them
I
servants, the minions
be my
Let them
"v"
is,there will I come, and
I will stand
burn
fiends
till they become
mercy,
will,and I will both teach
shapes and
names
in
at
Where
open.
of my
Listen 1 my
will,walking ever
disguise,and
and
discord
anarchy prevail,there will
them
change
mine.
the
beneath
out
from
the hearts of
incarnate,and
and
gallows-tree,
devise
to
legion ;
are
all doors
me
I be ; where
men
every
are
cruelty
vestige of
unimaginable
horrors.
while the death rattle is in
even
will drive men
to robberyand murder.
I will lie
criminal,
and plan the midnight tirei^nd assassination.
cities,
into prisons and
I will plunge my vctims
in
poor houses,steeping them
to
the
I
forth
and
wretchedness
will
their
cast
families
poverty
very lips.
to want, wintry winds, and the bPtbe shall perishin itsmother's arms, with
its tears frozen to ice-dropsupon her bosom, I will point the dagger of the
husband
againstthe heart of the wife,and her blood shall stain the cradle
I will turn the son's knife against the father's throat,and
of his children.
the throat
of the
in the streets of
in wait
his gray
hair shall drip with
gore
1
Where
war
and
vengeance
are
there
fury to tenfold rage, and blot from the soldier's heart the
torch shall be my banner, the
last vestige of humanity. The incendiary's
cence,
innocrackling flames of burning villages,and the shrieks of murdered
the way for the pe8tile;i"^,
I will prepare
the music of my march.
and open to his ravages the gates of a million dwellings,which, without
have entered.
I will spread famine and disease even
my aid,he could never
and
and
will
of
seal up the eyes of all my victims
in lands
health,
plenty
the next
or know, and
see
so they shall not
plunge is into perdition. I
will coil myself in the seeds and fruits of the earth,in the grain,sheaf and
hanging grape-cluster.Man will boast his skill to turn.
'*
arts chemical
.By
spell
will I
their
rouse
"
The
"
To
"
To
sweet
milk
of the earth
the sweet
ferment
to
an
of hell
essence
and corrupt
fruit,
the fair
grain,
the brain."
engender a spiritthat maddens
fierce fire shall urge me
The
nothing loath from ray hiding place,
shall
think
that
from
and
the
men
me
they thus triumph over
; but
of the mocking wine-cup I will laugh them
bubbles
I
will
to scorn.
their inhabitants,and
whole
of
continents
and
give " woes
sweep
and wounds
of men.
Yet whowithout cause,"to the whole race
sorrows
'
is wounded
ever
Let
*
Jehovah
me
shall seek
forth from
mo
as
his bosom
earthlybodies ; I will seek them
that shall consume
unquenchablefire,
dwell
an
by
send
in
hid treasures
spiritspure
to
as
be wounded
the
out, and plant within
them
; and
again.
snow-flake
to
their hearts
the cherubim
shall
"SBB
10
watch
long
for tbeir return
at
heaven's
gate, but ihey shall
The
in Heaven.
their Father
look upon
student
at his
never
books,the
again
mechanic
plough,will I destroy,and none shall stay me.
of the sea cai"tain,
and seal up his ejes ; and
his vessel and all on board shall be engulpLed,and the bones of the mariners
I will be the omnipresentcurse
of the ocean.
whiten the bottom
of human'
I will take
ity. None so high or so low but he shall feel my bloody hand.
of kings and the mighty men, and the chief captainsand the great
the sons
with dishonest wounds
of
of the earth,and mangle them
ones
; stripthem
fill
their
and
last
hours
life
with
when
and
torture
itself,
wealth,fame,
;
at his
at his
the laborer
toil,
I will coil
myself in
nerve
shrieks
every
horrors
of the
the brain
with
out
pitin which
1
I will open to tbeir startled gaze the
for ever 1 Yet this is not all. I
agony,
plunge
them
that ye will laugh (iffiends can
laugh) when I tell you that I will so
all
mankind
shall
think
that
I will come
unto
me their friend I
along
manage,
know
them
and
as
an
men
angel of light. The physicianshall
shall
will be at the
never
be
so
the
wedding feast,
invoke
my aid in sickness,
of their deadliest foe I I
in presence
as
merry
source
joy,and
of
at the funeral
I will fix my burning eye upon
in indissoluble fetters ; yet shall
the solace of their sorrow,
them, and bind them
while
free,
upon
that
fire,
shall scorch
yet shall
they fall down
and
to the
the iron
their brows
will bind
of
crown
their inmost
sear
and
worship me,
and
lands,and gold and silver,
music
fascinate
they shout they
of their
own
chains
suffering,
burning with
soul and
and
gathering
and
for my
heart and
are
!
I
hell
brain ; and
houses
sake part with
wife and
and hope and heaven i
children,
betrayerin his own bosom, and when
and
this sutficesnot to destroyhim, he shall strugglealone against millions,
and usage of the world,aud every temptation that man
can
every custom
to his ru'u.
set before his fellow,shall help me
Though it is my mission to
of Adam, yet will I so mix with their
race
torture and destroy the whole
and their dailyhabits,
delude their
their pleasures
so flatter and
business,
shall
that
me
a
good creature,nay a creature
they
stupidsenses,
pronounce
the
of
and
Governmeiits
earth shall declare my existence
the
God!
kings
of
yea,
a public hhmiig^ and
pass laws for my protectionand that of my
walk
in the earth ; decimating its inhabitants,and
emissaries^while we
of
Yet
shall the rations glory in the wisdom
into
hell!
them
tumbling
and
He
i
like maniacs
they dance
men,
that would
their
shun
rulers,and
turn
shall find his
me
a
deaf
ear
to the wail
of
anguish that fillsthe earth?
to
of the pit,turn
mockery all who shall
exultingin the inspiration
gion,
Oftentimes,too, will I wrap myself in the spotlessrobe of relioppose me.
J
of
the
Most
the
in
be
High
shall
and my chosen strong-hold
temple
and
r"
r
.
"''''.
r
i.
11
and
with
desolation
blood
have
(
it
sacrilegeto molest
and
and
trodden
ruin ?
in my
He
ceased
break
wave
with
of graves
If thou
of men,
But
first tell
livingshore,
pebbles."
applause arose, amid
on
thick
as
leaves,or
autumn
call thee ?
to
name
do these
"
seat
stamping of
arch-enemy
at his right
art henceforth
hell shall be crowded
sands
the sea-shore.
upon
And
saying,he spread his broad,bat-like wings, and
has he fulfilled his mission
How
'
r
For
^
thousand
a
Smote
And
while
hath
earth
with
men,
as
the red flesh-worms'
thou
children,body
years
the wide
furnished
To
Even
the
The
the fiend answered
:
'^
vanished.
,,s4.
I
i^J
things,thou
forth ! and
Go
"ALCOHOL."
;'f~
where
a
indeed
canst
the earth.
what
by
us
earth,and
:
vicegerent upon
my
the souls
the
like
the damned
feet,and
with
Let
filla world
shall mark
unearthlyyell of
the clashingof adamantine
shields.
throne,and led the horrid spectre to a
: one
stepped from his
hand, and spake thus
"
Terrible Being !
So
of murder.
thus
can
triumphal march, and
Heaped
countless
else
thy vicegerent upon
me
water, millions
as
Hell's every
i
Make
shall flow
tears
work
in my
me
then, O Satan, be ruler of the earth,for who
me
1
shall deem
men
and
he
readest
is
near
his
hell grew
lighteras
he
1
fierybreath
crime
and
daintiest
death
;
food.
slimy brood.
thee : ready
destroy thee and thy
to
soul.
and
reformers, Christian
philanthropists,
moral
Christian ministers,have tried their universal panacea,
Temperance
''
suasion,"on
drunkard
the
as
success,
cheerful
create
to
only
evidenced
here
in
cure
It is
diseased
Stop
will be
a
no
systems with,
accompanied with
stream
disease-'producmg
need
of
a
the
a
or
at
a
stem
r---*-
small-pox, unless
and
happy
powerful agent in
healthy public sentiment, but
faces.
a
with
wise
there
an
couraging
en-
homes
and
pulpit or
very
poor
to
cine
medi-
epidemic of
sures.
preventive meaan
its fountain
and
remedy,for the unsuspecting and
there
igno-
1^
annuallyfallvictims to its poisonouseffects.Until
this is done
by ProhibitoryLiquor Laws, we must follow
of progressive
in the wake
medicine, and make the best use
are
drugs which
constantly being
possibleof the new
antidotal
of
virtue
to and curato
light,possessed
brought
influence of alcohol and opium.
tive of the disease-producing
the days of Galen and Hippocratesuntil the present
From
the medical
professionhas been importuned in vain to
wbo
rant
,
furnish
some
restore
its victims
health and
that would
agent
their
to
this remorseless
stem
natural
condition
of
tide
or
primitive
vigor.,
fci^^^
In the progress bf medicine, however
ward
(which is ever onof the few blessingswhich
and upward), and as one
result
sometimes
powers
of
against their
regionshitherto
of which
was
the outcome
as
a
book,
of restorative
posst^ssed
used,under
"judiciously
dawned
has
Light
upon
host who
to-daydwell
conducted
wars
less-favored
littleknown
sealed
of
brethren,
to us, and
we
the natives
ihe medical
botany
medicinal
agents
have
now
ized
by civil-
unlimited,when
practically
favoringconditions and surroundings.
to the vast
hope has come
us, and
powers,
under
the dark
shadow
of this withering
curse.
'ir
to
From
us
the
those
wilds
of the mountains
wonderful
restoratives
of Peru
ups/' the Loxa bark and the Peruvian
laboratoryof pharmaceuticalscience we
:;
invaluable
alterative,"the
double
latter
have
of all
leaf,and
brought
**pickme
from
the
have
chloride
former, judiciouslyadministered, tone
the
we
best
and
up
produced that
gold." The
the dilapidated
of
diseased condition
changing
of the glandular organs
to a healthy state, and
effectually
the
abnormal
drink
or
crave
eradicating
appetitefor strong
nervous
drink.
system
the
f^m
^k
m
r
f"r"|J'rom
observatioirive
ea#m^ nations
have
knowledge that ^^t-
the
proverbiallygreat
are
drinkers
of alcoholic
beverages,to wit,the beef and beer of England, the winebibbing gourmand of J^rance,the pufly lager drinker of
Germany, the whiskey and herringsof North Britain and
and
salt rations
of seafaringlife,
the
Ireland, the rum
"^v
game-eating and firewater of the Indian.
Hence, in treatingintemperance,abstinence for a time
is enjoined,with resort to ftruit,
flesh meat
ffom
vegetables,
li
J
meal
and
milk.
much
and
from
jw*f
the
It
'^se
Since
retained
sour
baths,
milk, butter
'great service
We
di^t.
"i^
'^we
milk
the
moral
terial
ma-
eVen
spirit
combustible
Turkish.
gases,
As
especiallyhas been found
in preventing a return
of
recommend
and
waste
essential oil and
especiallythe
v':u--'
YciAs
and
carbon
to old drunkards
for drink.
thirst
system is fillea with
beverages used, oftentimes
Recommend
of
the
its
'-p-'T
."/
mental
as
use
condition
of
the
article 6f
an
0'?
ff"jfi)n''''ff
the
vjeiT?
is
(hnd'ff
weakdn"^d
cheerful
attd
patient; if possible,with
All
these
wholesome
We
measures
surroundings.
adopt
"Wbile we
diligentlyply the oars in the form of the Elixir
it is indispensably
ijqfgold, and other remedies, which
should be persistedin accordingto the peeuliar
^necessary
'f-T^MTo^- i*H\^i\d *}h nrnir
of each case.
circumstance
aJ
provide
'Th^
the
on
principle
from
the
which
system
these
those
remedies
elements
act is
which
by
ing
eliminathave
an
affinityfor the poison,alcohol ; and, like the horse leach, is
quent
by freconstantlycrj'ingout, give! give 1 I give 1 1 1 When
doses the system has accumulated
enough medicine
is
be antipathic to the poison of alcohol, the
cure
to
made; on the same
principleas quinine acts as an antidote
u
poisonof fever and ague, or vaccination prevents
small-pox.
has a physical
It being demonstrable that drunkenness
and glandular
basis in a diseased conditicm of the nervous
to
systems it follows that its treatment belongsprimarily
of the physician,
and secondarily
the
the domain
to
only
whose wise counsels,
Christian minister or philanthropist,
to obliterate the
encouragement and help will do much
to the
traces
with
^^m
"
pastand cover
up the evidence which recall
which
the
have led to the
mistakes
crushingpower
of the
misfortune
of
a
lifetime.
Medical treatment
hitherto has been
limited to the treatment
of the
secondaryeffectsof alcoholism. The treatment
is one
thing,and the treatment of the
of tremens
is another,and a very different,
cause
thing.
the
alcohol
of
is
effects
of
drunkenness
one
Poisoningby
which may be hereditary.
The successful treatment
of this
disease must
of the hereditary
not stop short of the cure
taint or appetite
for strong drink ; it is the employment of
such remedies only that will cure drunkenness.
This method
is rational^nbecause
of treatment
tically
therapeuaction
The
the
diseased
t
o
antipathic
going on.
action of the chloride of gold,for example,is primarily
upon the higher cerebral nerve-centres,the very seat of a
of delirium tremens
diseased
will and
of the mania
directly
upon those
when
cause
diseased,
for
of the
portions
strong drink. It acts
system which
nervous
dementia, and
lunacy,epilepsy,
the
habit.
drinking
In
that form
remed}^has
speakhighlyof
y^
of
as
melancholia,this
Bartholow,Nord and Trousseau
insanityknown
longbeen used.
its effects in
or
insanity.In neurastheniay
"".
V
16
^^
exhaustion
nerve
disease
Chloride
of
been
and
Here
drink.
the
removing
of
diseases
blood
The
number
who
curing
alcoholism
as
it
possible
special
in
grapple
the
to
treatment
same
from
of
persons
control
forcibly
principle
cases
an
as
institution
our
lunatic
trial
possibility
the
of
increase,
all
in
pass
or
matter
as
a
of
cure
necessary.
and
an
asylum,
asylums.
successfully
although
regard
while
them,
disease
varied
their
should
and
mission,
no
is
mania
intellectual
more
government
dangerous
in
actual
on
such
that
may
the
the
induced
be
the
on
double
that,
however,
the
in
rapidly
with
needful
irresponsible
proof
a
the
in
as
syphilis,
originate
curing
treatment
physicians
is
proves
has
well
as
that
fulfils
of
and
reporting
may
obvious,
believe
now
be
would
while
is
posterior
of
advanced
effectually
V
a
an
brain
of
alterative
system
any
brain
the
taint
It
rational
drnnkQiinesa,
it
such
drunkenness.
how
of
prescribed.
affections,
Crothers,
disease,
of
prevailing
daily
are
tumors
Dr.
while
the
"
these
in
scrofula,
transmission
scrofula,
for
beneficial
chorea;
hereditary
kind
any
remedies
"
is
syphilis,
and
of
excess
these
day
gold
in
used
epilepsy
t.
from
the
of
Act
to
forms
them
making
undergoing
conducted
"a
'ti?
'to
-irA"e^n^f^r
'^Hmr
'")
ALCOHOLISM.
V(
in all alcoholic
Alcohol, contained
directlyaffects the
which
the
acts
brain.
in
tissues.
a
this
When
very
individual
their
and
injurious manner
sensitiveness
intoxicated
thus
system,
nervous
poison finds its way
decided
It lessens
beverages,is
and
and
an
agent
particularly
blood,it
into the
/
upon
nerve*
dulls their action.
poisoned is less capable
of directing his actions and doing what he ought to do, or
If the quantity taken
to do.
he wishes
what
be small,
even
be only a bluntingof the fine edge of consciousthere
ness
may
and
right feeling. Of course, the effect produced is
taken.
But
when
proportioned to the amount
larger
decrease
are
taken, there follows a very marked
quantities
of physical sensibility,
accompanied with mental stupidity
of moral
decided
loss
of
the
and
self-government.
power
in large quantities it may
taken
When
mediately,
destroy life imactive
like any
other
poison ; in smaller quantities,
its
effects
are
frequentlyrepeated,
very prejudicial,
condition
of
the
that
termed
alcoholism.
system
producing
Being a cumulative poison it has a tendency to accumulate
and the glandular
in certain structures
the nervous
centres
the liver) in spite of its rapid elimination
organs (especially
by all the excretory organs and the skin (especially
destruction
withi n the economy.
by the lungs) or its partial
The
of alcoholism
are
usually treated
by
consequences
authors under
two divisions,viz.,dipsomania and
delirium
The
"
"
or
1?.
tremens
the former
"
craving
express that morbid
drink crave/' which
in
to
"
liquors,
intoxicating
partakes almost of the character of insanity.
other
is a degrading vice, which, like many
for
cases
many
Drunkenness
i
is used
term
and
difficult to discontinue the
more
more
vices, becomes
is a fruitful cause
of crime
it is indulged in, and
more
is a nuisance to himself
insanity. The drunkard
into
with
him.
contact
He
who
all
are
is
and
brought
breaks
he
he
untruthful
and
makes
artful
promise
;
every
the
of
the feelings,
interests,
or
and is perfectly
regardless
It
to
be
is
others.
for
of
the
regretted
that,
the happiness
of conlegal means
trolling
welfare of society,there is not some
of his folly. Experience
be cured
him until he can
in curing the
that there is no
diificulty
has demonstrated
can
inveterate sot, providedwo
most
only obtain control of
his
abstinence from the
to a sufficient degree to ensure
him
faithful
and
the
of remedies.
use
of alcohol,
The
use
in
of
much
so
habits
our
times, resulting
drifiking
poverty and
poverty
"^
f
V
and
wretchedness, is principallydue
times, which
of livingof modern
men,
professionalstudents
\^omen,a
nervous
to
high-pressure
system
business
induces,among
fashionable,dissipating
and
of enervation
condition
system from
which,
the
or
for want
enfeeblement
of the
of rest,
many
do not
easilyrecover.
misguided followers of Todd in the
to be broughtinto requisition:
medical professionis sure
be more
alcoholic stimulants
(depresbentsw^ould
correct) are
like
and drunkards,
opium eaters,are manufactured
prescribed,
The
wholesale
relief
which
of the
panacea
from
by
the
a
requkea
advice
nervous
onlythe
of
those
disorder
use
or
to whom
they apply for
neurasthenic
of rest,fresh
condition
air,food and tonic
v!
18
called Death's Prime
It has been
to choose
determined
train
diseases,were
of
prime
a
Minister.
D6ath, the king of terrors, was
the ghastly
pale courtiers,
attend,when each preferredhis claim
"
minister,and
summoned
to
of this illustrious office.
his
troyed
urged the numbers he had des; cold Palsy set forth his pretensionsby shaking all his limbs ; Gont
in rackingevery joint; and Asthma's
hobbled up, and allegedhis great power
to
a
inability speak was
strong, though silent,argument, in favor of his
to the honor
Fever
claim ; Stone and Colic pleaded their violence ; Plague his rapid progress
in destruction ; and Consumption, though slow, insisted that he was
sure.
In the midst
of this
disturbed with the
contention,the court was
music, dancing, feasting and revelry : when immediately entered
She
flushed jovial countenance.
with a bold,lascivious air,and
was
tended,
at-
instruments
addressed
the crowd
nor
dare
to vie with
of diseases:
my
"
Give
way,
superior merits
parent, the author
in
ye
the
sicklyband
service
of
pretenders,
of this monarch
;
being ? Do ye not derive the
life
of
human
almost
from me?
Who
then so fit
shortening
wholly
power
"
this
?
for
office
The
monarch
grisly
as myself
important
grinned a smile
of approbation,placed her at his right hand, and she immediately became
^
his principalfavorite and Prime
Minister.
am
I not your
of your
"
Nerve
Exhaustion
condition
I
of
female
band
one
by a troop of bacchanals ; and on the other,by a train
youths and damsels,who danced,half-naked, to the softest musical
her hand, and thus
was
Intemperance. She waved
; her name
on
of wanton
!
noise
a
insanityor
functional
lesion
behind
of
the
or
Neurasthenia
system,
nervous
dipsomania,and
which
is manifested
is
debilitated
a
leads
Addison.
to
in many
hysteria,
o^
forms
of
for a morbid
derangement. Modern pathologists\\ook
after death
structure
to account
for all derangements
of
health, but
this
disorder
it,beyond inanition,but leads
leaves
no
morbid
lesion
permanently diseased
conditions. The prominent symptoms
tude,
lassi: depression,
are
nervousness
ditions
prostration. The great changes in the conof life among
peopleof modern times has necessitated
of work, and
have
great changes in their methods
now
we
vast numbers
of people working with the head rather than
to
10
with
the hands.
business,added
powers
in the
and
The
to the
high-pressure
system
increased
system, has
nervous
generalcharacter
strain
of
carrying .on
the
upon
produced a
marked
mental
change
of the disorders of health
among
the
manufacturingand tradingpeopleof the present, and nervous
disorders are acquiredand transmitted
from parent to child,
giving us a risinggeneration of high-strung,
sitive
delicately-sennervous
organizations,which, in tuii, will yield an
abiMKiant crop of
hO
and
prevalent,
nervous
is
so
disorders.
!
f
-
is
now
the attention
is
piofession
"
1V
exhaustion
that
rapidlyincreasing,
directed to it.
especially
The
brain worker plods busilythrough the mazes
of difficult
problems during the day, only to continue his restless
cogitationsafter he has retired to his couch ; weary hours
are
passed in fitfuland enervating sleep,and he rises in the
morning, feelinglanguid,tired and un refreshed ; and so he
beginseach new day as it were
handicapped in the race
exhausted
breaks down, and
of business,and, finally,
nature
suicide
or
dissipationfollows as a sequel. Fashionable
whirl
the busy round
of fashionable
women
etiquettein
disorder
an
ever-restless,
unceasing activity,until nervous
The
the
is induced.
mechanic, on
contrary, goes quietly
to his work, retires to rest
at
a
regular hour, and takes
his rest, and
morning finds him with clear head, clear
and
vigorous strength for the day's
eye, hearty appetite,
or
duties. While the merchant
brain-worker,who is straining
for wealth with its dazzlingmiliiorw
in the race
every nerve
with
no
listless,
appetite for
morning finds dull and
for work, but business is pressing
food and no disposition
litated
necessityis an inexorable task-master,and the alreadydebihimself to the task, throws
himself
strugglernerves
of the
"
Nerve
"
21
which
includes all persons
maki rig
inebriety,
intemperate uee of alcohol,opium or chloral hydrate,the
diseased condition in each case
being the same.
Happily the
of
in
materia
has
medica
discovery
placed within
progress
disease called
with
'*
with
medicines
reach
our
these
we
can
and
an
successfully
cope
disorders.
troublesome
Inebriety.A
which
common
increasingly
is inebriety. Indeed, the
of neurasthenia
sequence
and frequency ofthe
main
of the increase
cause
disease,
tries,
inebriety,in this country, and in all highly civilized counof the age.
is the increasing nervousness
When
a
becomes
heat
to
what
is
man
prostrated by exposure
is left in a neurastcalled heat-profttration
he oftentimes
henic
common,
very
"
"
"
A
state.
be
the
source
few
of neurasthenic
be, for months
4 *""
V
moments'
6r
years.
of this kind
exposure
may
invalidism, lastingit may
While
in this state, an
sistible
irre-
tal^e
drinking alcoholic liquors may
who
and very
never
suddenly,indeed, of one
possession,
without
for drink, and
before had the least inclination
any
become
attack
of
he
an
inebriate; an
apparent cause,
may
desire
for
attack of neural*
as suddenly as
on
an
inebrietymay come
and, like these,may often be
gia,or insomnia, or hay-fever,
excited
direct sequence
of neurasthenia
a
by exposure to
heat.
excited by any other cause
Neurasthenia
have,
may
and does have, justthis effect; though not, usually,with
such
suddenness
as
domestic
it is
so
The
neurasthenic
often, by the shock
of
and
worries, may
open
state
bereavement,
disappointmentsand griefs,anxiety on
financial troubles
the door
account
to
veloped,
deof
of
ty
inebrie-
speak,push
patientin,and^sometimesshut
in
o^this kind occur
up beyond remedy. Phenomena
; and,
him
violence.
or
so
to
the
7
r82
those who
have
in those who
or
"
who,
at
been
never
drinking
to
times
some-
"
been total abstainers ail their lives
have
least,have
large number
aecuBtomed
been
never
drinkers.
excessive
wealthy citizens of this country,
stances,
and, in a few inmerchants, manufacturers,speculators,
have
who
their
means
men,
acquired
professional
and
and
excessive
drafts
constant
the
on
friction,
by
great
Quite a
nervous
system, have
and
this pressure
a
breaks
Meconism
of narcotics
out
who
sons
born
were
inherit the
toil,who
tendency
or
neurosis,
which
of
to
disease
in the form
of
the
of
and
system,
nervous
inebriety.
This
is sometimes
sequelof
a
diathesis
nervous
of
Mania).
(Opio"
in the midst
^
form
of
in the
excess
neurasthenia.
One
use
of
the effects of
for the time,the depression
opium is to relieve,
than pain from
which
the hopelessness,
worse
thenics
neurasthis drug,
suffer. It is,therefore,a temptation to use
beginningof course, with small doses,and increasinguntil
becomes
the master"
the patienta slave. In
the servant
is
alternation
there
of opio-mania with inebriety
an
cases
some
in
of
take
those two poisons,
excess
one
; they must
in
alcohol or opium. In one
which
I was
case
consulted,
that
it
the patient stated,
was
impossiblefor him
positively,
to get along without
being an. opium eater or an inebriate ;
little difitei^enco which
he took, whiskey or
that it made
Not
sufficient for him.
opium, either one or the other was
all cases
of inebrietyor opium-eating have a neurasthenic
We
make
can
origin,but a largenumber are of this kind.
differential diagnosisof neurasthenic
a
inebrietyby the
"
"
symptoms
that
always,or
almost
such
as
accompany
it.
always,have
Inebriates
other
insomnia, headache,
of
evidences
nervousness,
this
kind,
of exhaustion,
irritability,..
^i"
*:
23
4.
and the like;and inebriety
in those cases is jn^P
neuralgia,
as
trulya symptom of the exhausted state as tho other
symjitoms accompanyingit,and ought to be so regarded.
and opium mania of this kind are to be treated
Inebriety
liko the other symptoms of neurasthenia,
that is,by strong
with tonics ; and there are many
of
sedatives^
alternating
thene cases, at least a considerable number, that can
be
and while pursuing
treated outside of an asylum at home
their regularbusiness. I believe in inebriate asylums and'^'
"
have
been
justas
for years their earnest advocate and defender,
I believe in and advocate insane asylums,
and there.,|
is
antagonism between
no
largenumber
outside of
^ii
"
There
them.
of inebriates that
can
be
are,
however,
a
treated
successfully
of melancholia
cases
asylum,justas there are some
of a mild type that ^
and other phasesof insanity
be treated successfully
can
by a physicianwithout sending
them to any institution whatever, and, indeed,more
cessfully
suchave
than in any institution,
sible
senprovidedthey
friends and proper surroundings.The evil ofoplumr^
exhaustion is a growing one; constantly.'
takingin nervous
I am
culled upon to treat patients
who
have added tbe'^
^'*
morphinehabit to their weaknesses and pains.
One way in which neurasthenia induces inebriety
is,tbaf
an
it causes, sometimes, a great and incredible tolerance ofi^
alcohol ; in those cases they can
doses withi"
bear immense
no bad effects.
feeling
good or bad certainly
any effects,
indeed ; one of my
Some of these cases are very interesting
afflictedat one
time with cei'ebrastheni^
medical patients
at one
stageof the dis"
(fromwhich he has now recovered),
out
ease, when
tumbler of
"
he
was
at the
very
full
worst, could takie^'W*
whiskey and not feelany bad
^K,
'""-
--".
effects,
although
l^e^'p
2*
drinking when he was well. On6 of my
the case, the
hay-feverpatients in whom, as is sometimes
of
of
haustion,
attack were
profoundexdays
precededby a number
though he was not accustomed to drink at all,tells
used
was
not
me
that
to
in
in
liquor,
any
attacks
of those
one
amount, has
no
exhaustion, alcoholic
of
effect whatever."
"
^
Beard,
HEREDITY.
writingsof Dr. Grothers and others,being clinical reports of cases,
Besides this proof of the direct
proofsof the heredityof alcoholism.
transmissions
of alcoholism,theiSe clinical reports show
that drukenness is
is readilycorrelated with
other diseases,as epilepsy,
a disease force that
ards.
drunkor
lunacy and idiotcy.The children of an epileptic
may be epileptics
The
children
of a drunkard
be lunatics,
idiots or
epileptics,
may
The
all
are
haye
other manifestations
If clinical
of
diseases.
nervous
are
we
facts,
justified
by induction to generalize
from them, and to apply these generalizations
to all the facts relating
to alcoholism in their widest sense.
that further generalizaIt will be seen
tion
has been drinking alcoproves these laws to be true. Gbristtndom
hoi for nearly nineteen centuries.
Alcoholism is a disease of Obristendom.
These laws proven by observation
of individuals are verified by observation
of the people of Christendom
of these people
at large. The greater number
who
drink at all begin to drink at the age of 18 years ; the greater num-
cease
mer
cases
at the age
to drink
is
as
these
prove
of 35 years.
after the age
The
of 35 years
generallysaid,they never
greater number
never
reform, and
recover
beyond
are
of those who
from
the
tinue
con-
the disease
reach
or,1
of Christian
and other influences.
It may
or
enness
duration
That
I
Kill
4i
the
correctlybe inferred from this verification of statistics that drunk
is self-limited. The average
alcoholism,like many other diseases,
of the disease
there is every
disease,age,
"
this heirloom
of Noah
"
is about
seventeen
years.
possiblevariation from these averages, in intensityof
and other points in individuals
is apparent to any ob-
y.
Sv'rver.
Kerr, M.D., P.L.S.,London, says :
heredityof alcohol Norman
" The
of the numerous
evils
most
saddening,and perhaps the most serious,
both of
kind is the hereditarytransmission
inflicted by alcohol on
human
gence
the drink- crave
itselfand of the pathologicalchangescaused by indulOn
the
in alcohol.
4*
25
Physical disease from intemperance is often transmitted ; for example,
alcoholic gout, alcoholic rheumatism, alcoholic cirrhosis,
phthisis,
and alcoholic contracted
kidney. The blood of the inebriate is so vitiated
alcoholic
and
his
father
energies
will
English
^
beget
infantile
infant
to the
wasted
so
that
with
even
and
puny, debilitated,
a
sober
a
stunted
mortality is so terrific.The
mother
progeny.
same
a
Thus
drunken
it is that
be said with
may
regard
mortality of other countries.
Alcoholic
and
neryous
diseases
mental
also
are
handed
down
; for
example, alcoholic
narrated
apt
are
liable
Dr.
by
to be
epilepsy. The medical history of several families are
Kerr, showing that the daughters of intemperateparents
hysterical and
easilyto fall into
and
nervous,
the
feeble,eccentric,and
sons
ates
legacy from inebriIt
has
been
no
can
on^
gainsay.
observed that while the children
of sober parents had been healthy and
vigorous the children born to them after these same
parents had lapsed
from
sobriety into confirmed
insobrietywere
physicallyand mentally
to
their
Idiocy is
insanity.
helpless children.
common
a
This
defective.
Dr.
Kerr
notes
a
indulgence,
hereditary
external
4k
after three
fact,that
of
the children
the latest
exhibit
sometimes
temperance ipfluences,
to all alcoholic
is
curious
very
drinks
and
thus
are
or
four
generations of
victims, apart from
an
uncontrollable
saved.
The
inherited
into
drink-
blaze
by the
smallest
distilled liquor. In
form
of fermented
or
sip of the weakest
alsolute unconditional
abstinence
lies the hereditary drinker's only safety.
All the terrible evils consequent on inherited dipsomania may
spring from
held
toxication
what
is
to be inai^.oun
parental indulgence never
generally
ting to
crave
always
latent, and
ready
ever
to be
lit up
any
nance
repug-
a
PATHOLOGY.
The
than
habit as it is inherited cannot be demonstrated
pathology of the drunken
examinations
other
or
definitely
means
by post-mortem
any more
inherited lunacy,idiotcy,
dition
epilepsyor paralysis.The pathologicalconas
is
transniitted
developed.
to act
in
a
The
certain
the environment.
of the
manner
The
higher cerebral
himself
are
and
in all these
nature
or
when
lunatic
lies in
a
tendency
until
his environment.
with
force of
by relations of
irregularaction
unable,by
correctlyupon the
the motor
In the epileptic
such explosions,
when acted
reason
the disease
of the molecules
they are properly stimulated
becomes
centres, to.
given off so abruptly,and
is alike unknown
cases
essence
tween
relations be-
discharges
by the
upon
/
26
1
In the person who inherits
peripheralnerves, that a convulsion
occurs.
alcoholism
the opportunityto drink at once
develops him into a drunkard.
The pathology as transmitted
lies in the moleculee
of the higher centres
which determine
the character of brain action,and which is the field where
diseases that effect the character
pathologicalaction arises in most nervous
of the
of
and
man
lightin
and
motion
as
sciences
but
vegetablelife,
of the molecules
in the
of ether which
can
determine
development
tell all about
cannot
wc
We
status.
and
of
the effects
growth
of animals
the constitution
what
are, objectively,
1
and
'
recognize
we
light.
The
pathology of developed alcoholism
examinations, and
well
is determined
by post-mortem ^
known
that of any other disease. The grey
as
as
the brain is congested,as well as
the membranes.
Generally
of
matter
there is found
an
his mental
give him
the arts and
in the ventricles of the brain and
effusion of
membranes,
and
and
of the
in
arachnoidal
the
there is
cases
with a thickeningof
vessels,and various
cavitv
tion
inflamma-
chronic
a
the structure
morbid
'
of the
products,as
seruin.
known
other brain diseases
that many
hereditarytaint of alcoholism
nation.
advanced
more
engorgement
pus, sero-pus
It is well
In
serum.
of the brain
latter,blood
is
The
which
develope the
may
lies in the brain of every
clinical reports of
physicians who
have
of
son
latent
ing
drink-
a
made
a special
of the
study
and
neurasthenia
brain, syphilis,or scrofula,affecting the brain,
may
as epilepsy,
Otherdisenses,
develope a mania for drunkenness.
lunacy,"c.,'**
in the person himself by transformation
into this
may develope drunkenness
of
alcoholism,notably those of Dr.
Crothers,show
that tumor
'
sort of
mania,
Excessive
with
well
idiot,
send
blow
from
or
as
as
emotion
a
as
may
render
him
to a
a
forces,aroused
cycloneupon the very
(Keeley.)
tionnl
Alcoholic
by transmission
a
person
madhouse,
by hereditarydescent.
epileptic,
may
and
may
even
make
take
him
away
a
tering
chat-
his life
giant. What wonder, then, that the terrible emoby a " sea of trouble,"spending their strength like
unstable
brain
liquorsact upon
is,of the bruin
should make
tissue,
different
parts
him
of
a
the
drunkard
a
,
?
human
spinalcord and the glandular
That
this is true is proven
firmed
by the results in conorgans.
fered
interinebriates,specialfunctions
being ispecially
with.
Thus, on the glanduhirsystem, gin acts on the
system, that
"
or
.
;
t
27
the liver ; whiskey, especiallyIwt
kidneys ; brandy on
on
whiskey, on the skin,whereas champagne acts especially
the brain ; wines on the kidneys,arrestingtheir function and
promoting the gouty and rheumatic diathesis;and for this
find different physicalresults in different cases
of
reason
we
In
of
I will quote Dr.
those statements
inebriety. support
Shorthouse,who, writingto the British MedicalJournal,says :
If a man
partake of too large a quantityof good sound
wine, or malt liquor,he usuallystaggers about from side to
to griefand
side,his gait is very unsteady,and, if he come
to Mother
falls on one
side or the other. If
Earth he generallj^
he take too much
that abomination
which
whiskey,especially
of Irish or common
whiskey, he is almost
goes by the name
certain to be seized with an irresistibleimpulseto fallforward
"
on
his face.
he
especially,
more
back, and
once
If he
saw
number
is certain
to
feast
"
of
men
all fiUl down
fall down
again in
nesscd
anything of
amazed, as well as
shrewd
on
apparently without
a
harvest
get drunk
Herefordshire
the
of the
drinkers
action
of
of cider
an
had
their
made
too
told him
man,
He
corroborated
overdose
of
that
that
the
beverage.
It would
appear,
at
a
wit
never
not
was
was
a
little
a
very
the effect
had that
seen
farmer's
day
several
version
cider.
Habitual
or
perry
liable than other persons
perry are more
of the limbs ; probablythis may
to paralysis
"
cider makers
sugar of lead with which some
or
He
merry
had
his men
perry, of which
has since that time
have
his
backs,get up again,and
before;and was
The farmer, who
amused.
latter
suddenly on
previous warning.
manner.
same
the
perry,
the like kind
invariablyproduced by
partaken'liberally.He
isolated cases, which
on
or
fall down
any
who
"
cider
be due
to the
"
perfect their
then, according to this \ery
! /
X
TEEATMENT.
'*"'
This should consist in
possible. 2nd.
5th. The
6th.
daism.
;
Ist. Isolation of the
Dietary restrictions.
patient where
3rd. Baths.
4th. Massage.
judiciousapplicationof
Tonic
Faraor
Electricity
remedies, as found in
alterative
and
specialmedicines.
Isolation.
"
This
is necessary
deprivethe patientfrom
until sufficient time
been
have
no
produced in
propensity
more
demands
has
for the
in order
cases
to
the
of obtainingdrink
possibility
elapsed to enable such a change to
the system
to
that Parliament
sanitariums
in most
that there will remain
The
drink.
should
detention
as
welfare
establish
and
cure
of
society
reformatories
of
drunkards^ as
or
it
and asylums for the sick and
sane.
inprovides hospitals
demands
that
of
the
Justice to society
a
portion
from
Government
receives
the traffic in
revenue
annually
strong drink, and the vending of licenses for the wholesale
now
spent in their care
to drinking,and
of persons addicted
and cure.
Numbers
unable to restrain themselves, voluntarily
placethemselves
and gladly
other restraint,
in prisons and asylums or under
out
4hat withsubmit to any treatment
or
surveillance,stating
be useless,as they could not
restraint all else would
manufacture
trust
the
of
themselves.
cure
drunkards, should
A
of drunkenness
model
be
sanitarium
should
or
institution
be situated upon
an
for
Island
where
in the St. Lawrence
difficult,and
be
obtained
by
suitable
with
where
walk
a
then
even
of ten
to the
access
or
main
liquor
only
be
situation,
a
comfortable
for
arrangements
Would
could
In such
miles.
more
shore
residence,
ample opportunities for fishing,fowling, scene-hunting,
botanizing,geologizing,"c.,"c.,the worst forms of ungovernable
live
of
in
state
a
drink-craving might
happiness,
from
restraint
until the
sobriety and comparative freedom
medicinal
and
patient
to
drink.
In
for
restorative
and
health
such
of eyery
for
Numberless
to
abundance
provisionfor
without
deficiencyof
of sunshine
that
be
suit each
of
of
the
strong
ample
vision
pro-
it
as
sented
pre-
electricity,
recreation.
directlydue
condition
for
case
and
appreciable lesion
any
as
the
a
sequence
in
system
tissue,there
is
a
/orce.
nerve
in
Over- exertion
or
craving
applicationof
inebrietyare
exhaustion,
nervous
which,
of
cases
the
restored
should
there
variety,to
itself,instruments
and
the
destroyed
institution
an
baths
had
treatment
business, anxiety of mind
long continued,
dissipation,high pressure in the mode of living, the
of civilization
and the neglect of hygienic laws, play a
important part of
their offspring by
the
nervous
the
reduced
disorders
vigor
vices
most^^
of individuals
of the
s^
an#*''
system
nervous
induced.
Diseases
from
be
a
depending
degenerated,
divided
into
state
two
exhausted,
an
on
of the
great
classes, viz.
:
as
distinguished
centres
nervous
the
induced
may
the
and
".
hereditary
functioL
error
of Uib
""
"
-jY^'
ir
offspringsuffer
induced
men
: ":
t
include
for the
have
which
^al ; the
faults
all those
their
cases
origin
hereditary, those
of
the
of
immediate
severe
in
in which
or
some
the
remote
at
progenitors(Campbell). Inebriety belongs to both these
be either
classes,that is, it may
hereditaryor induced^
which
be taken
must
Al' who
as
into account
suffer from
stimulants
exhaustion
nervous
be
they may
but being
in
no
in that
in the treatment.
responsiblefor
way
condition
the
greatlyincreased,and
is very
sible,
reprehen-
not
are
the
dition,
con-
temptation to
use
the habit of
quiet
tipplingeasilyinduced.
In his work
./
on
of
"Impoverishment
causes
by many
,
be noted
may
publiccareer
or
profit
strain, from
an
loss
of the commodities
depend
; the
overworked
the
sex, which
Of
"i
are
a
the
induced
is far
induce
more
cases
process of
well
wear
nervous
excessive
serious
more
also there
bearing and
important.
of
a
his chances
as
of extensive
volving
operationsin-
riyk;
the successful
"
tho
the mathematician
and
tear
in its ultimate
politician,
"
of brain
in its immediate
it is less perceptible
shock,
female
as
artist,the poet,
liable to that slow
which,
these
other
or
literaryman
professional
the student, the
sudden
Of
the cares,
responsible
manager
labor
mental
much
while
may
which
on
and
commercial, engineering, financial,
and
:
be produced
the anxieties
business,or
extensive
says
in themselves.
vicious
mental
nerve-tissue
a
in thevalues
of
and
risks,
largeand expensive family. The individual
time in anxious watch ings of the rapidfluctuations
of
spendshis
who
of
brain
not
severe
or
burdens
and
exhaustioTi^Campbell
nervous
all
are
substance,
effects than
results.
In
specialcauses, depending on
disease. Of these,too frequentchildnursing are not the least frequent or
are
many
originthan those justenumerated
reprehensible
exhaustion
of profoundand distressing
nervous
in the individual
by
the vices of civilization.
The
32
inordinate
of
stimulantB,opium, or tobacco; the abuse
of the sexual
excitation ;
especiallyby unnatural
powers,
and
the habits of general and
reckless
which
dissipation,
and
debase the mind
prostrate the physicalpowers, while
inoculate
the blood
with
the poisons of
they frequently
the
"c., are amongst
principalfactors of
syphilis,
mercury,
The dulness and coarseness
this class.
of the originaltissues
of
use
individuals
some
vices,but
of these
must
bow
have
so
The
may
them
save
only
for
a
systematicallysinned
brain
resemblance
and
to
nervous
time
from
sooner
or
the effects
later
of which
principles
they
they
against."
system
have
galvanic batteryin
a
a
time, as
inevitable law, the
to the
for
a
constant
somewhat
close
action,whose
duty it is to providea certain and continuous
supply of its
specialfluid for consumption within a given time. As long
are
as
fairly balanced, the functions
supply and demand
their regularand correct
which
owe
working to the nervous
fluid are carried on with precision,but when, by fitful and
carried far beyond the means
demands
excessive
of supply,
itself overis not only lost, but the machine
the balance
strained
and
are
injured,disorder
the inevitable
In addition
first and
disease
afterwards
results.
to the
brain
and
spinalnerves,
the
great sympathetic
injuredby our
materiallyinfluenced and
as
inebriety,
gluttony,venereal excess, moral
cal
delinquenciesor depravity,and all other vices of a physithis
with
origin,operate primarily on organs supplied
law
system of nerves, and as this system follows the same
it is unnaturallyexcited the
the more
as the others,bj'which
its powers
more
decay, it is not difficult to understand,
system
demand
is
; and
bearing in
mind
the intimate
relations
existing between
it
"f
33
these vices will induce
the
of nerves,
the nervous
exhaustion
severe
the
primarily,
one
in both these system
other
secondarily.
or induced,
hereditary
individual,
anythingthat inter,
constitution be
Whether
thingis certain
one
how indulgence
in
(Proctor),
nerves
cerebro-spinal
and the
the
to
feres with the natural direction of the current
the great
nerve
producessevere
centres
(Ranka).As
neurasthenia
the result of
essentially
or
from any of
functional
ment
derange-
exhaustion
nerve
impoverishmentof brain
or
is
nerve
must, when not taken on any distinct set of local
of improvement
symptoms, be treated on the broad principle
it
tissue,
The
preciseseat of the exhaustion,
cord or sympathetic
whether in the brain,spinal
system, is
understood
for the wise application
of
importantto be
of
generalnutrition.
remedies,as each of the great
affected
by
centres
nervous
medicines
particular
or
remedial
is
especially
agents.
minutelyinto
enteringhere too
of
particulars
I may indicate the printreatment, as that is impossible,
cipal
remedial agentsand their mode of application.
Without
1st. Rest,
the tired and
Among
earth the cry for rest has
for food,because it is more
for the
alwaysidleness,
We
J"-
have
greatnumber
exhausted
or
louder than the cry
always
difficultto obtain. Rest is not
best rest is
of
change of oc\^'apation.
organs in the body, and if we
to employ each in its turn, and
it does
sink into
a
not grow
weary
condition of disease.
and
and the best rest to an
Sleepis nature's greatrestorative,
exhausted system isprocuredfrom sleep.Without regular
and
healthysleepno
its functions in
iHi
inhabit this
been
so as
changejour occupation
then
no
one
organ too long,
become
-"
a
millions who
weary
human
a
body can longcontinue
healthyand efficientmanner.
to perform
34
A
wido range
of
muladies
be cured
by sloop.
wounded
It is a sovereign balm for sorrow,
spirits,
in.sjinity,
of temper, bodily
peovishneys,reatlessnodH,irritability
hysteria,
weariness, nervous
dyspepsia,beadaeho, neuralgia,
and will do much
to reiievi the languor and
prostrationin
wasting disease.
For the overworked, haggard,weary from long-continued
watchfuhiess
from
tfie nervous
from
or
prostrated
excesses,
th re is no
excessive
anxiety or brain work
remedy like
sleep.
To secure
sleepwe recommend
plentyof good refreshing
well-vontilatei
on
a
room,
good clean,rather
sleepingin a
hard, bed, with i*a empty stomach, nothing hould be eaten
for three hours before retiringto rest; cold sponging over
the whole body, but especially
the head and spine,
justbefore
bed, a peacefulmind and quiet conscience,then, with the
avoidance
of everything that would tend to producedisquietude,
or
agitation,annoyance
aggravation will promote
sleepand procure rest.
The habit of sleepingwell should be cultivated,
otherW^ise
life will be short,and sadly imperfect.
induced
A
is sometimes
sleeplesscondition
by grave
the
administration
of
narcotics
that is
or
responsibilities
by
difficult to overcome
without
When
change of residence.
this is possible
inland city to a seaside,
a change from
an
with sea-bathing,
time
"c., as recreation,or from a marifishing,
will effect the
of the interior,
city to the mountains
desired change of condition.
Never attempt to procure sleepby administering
chloral
hydrate,opium, or other drugs.
A cold towel wrapped around
the head a la Turban will
nervous
may
.
.
have
the desired effect in most
cases.
N.r
35
Pleasant
mind
from
occupation,and sufficient work to preserve the
the ennui of idleness,
should always be provided.
Diet.
2nd.
livinglargelyon meat diet are proverbially
given
to the consumption of largequantities
of alcoholic beverages,
while nations
livingon a diet composed largelyof starch,
such as the rice-feeding
populationsof tht tropicaleast, and
the fruit-eatingpopulationsof the south
of Europe and
Nations
America,
are
less given
to
drunkenness
than
meat-eatinsr
the meat-eating
prevailsamong
populations. Drunkenness
land,
people of the North of France, England, Scotland and IreCanada
and
the Northern
Germany, Russia, Sweden,
the
native Indians of the North
States and especially
among
live largelyon game.
and West, who
class of fermented
One
v-*'
for
food
to create
spicy condiments
another,
a
mustard,
sauces, "c. Butcher's
taste
appears
as
u
desire
for
pickles,
liquorsare
plain-flavored
pepper,
meat, and alcoholic
usually associated, and,per contra, a taste for
vegetables,fats and oils are also associated.
Persons
in the hgbitof taking alcoholic liquorsdailywhen
eating butchers meat find they must give them up entirely
when
livingon an exclusivelyfarinaceous diet without meat,
the liquorproving too irritating
to be endured
without
convenien
ininducing sleeplessness,
burning in the hands,
in some
and nausea,
with
headache
not
cases
being borne
without
vomiting, and that in persons who
by the stomich
with a meat
a few
diet,could take several
days previously,
wine
glassesof
Coarse
ance,
meats
while
food
daily with
and
comfort.
salted food
regular hearty meals
discourage
it.
tend
of
to
promote
fresh,wholesome
intemper.
ous
glutin-
2(7
The liBtof articleswhich
"
givenunder the vegetarian
valuable
as most
system of diet,for the cure of drunkards,
in
their
and pre-etniuent
antagonismto a/coAo/are : 1st.noaca^
boiled and
roni
are
flavoredwith
pound dailyshould be taken.
a
drunkard
who
eats half
a
butter,of which
^'I believe no
person
pounddailyof macaroni
(Napier.)
prepared."
half
can
a
be
Ihus
"
beans,dried peas or lentils soak twenty-four
herbs or other vegetahours,boil well with onions,celery,
;;
/
.
2nd. Haricot
bles and
plentyof
3. JHice is
or
.
"
butter or olive oil.
-
,
;i
but less importantthan macaroniipeas
useful,
beans.
4. The
various
are
as lettuce
garden vegetables
helpful,
and salad oil.
5.
Highly glutinousor sweetbread
should
not
be sour,
for
sour
bread
It
is of great use.
has a tendency to
drinking.
valuable in the followingonier-^
t). Kipe fruits are
Oranges,lemons,apples,
plums. Qf small
grapes, peaches,
strawberries are not good in many cawes
tain
as they confruits,
dered
disorin
w
hich
an
irritating
principle
many proiluce
heartburn
and
stomach,
hives,but currants, raspberries,
are
"c,,"c.,
unobjectionable.
of intemperance,
Fowler on vegetarianism,
a radical cure
inclined
If we enquirethe cause of a vegetarian
beingdissays :
find that the carbonaceous
to alcoholic liquors,
we
ment
eleiitarchcontained in the macaroni,beans or oleaginous
sive,
repulappear to render, unnecessary, and conisequently
"Alcohol
carbon in an alcoholicform."
Liebigsays;
fat
oil mutuallyimpede the secretion of each other
.and
throughthe skin and lungs;the use of cod liveroil has a
encourage
,,".
i,
**
"
"
^^
^^
bn
38
tendency
promote the disinclination
to
According
to
others, most
food but
is
diet for inebriates
article of
; it is
or
in
material
of
carrying out
that the
valuable
milk is most
sour
contains, and which
it
a
fect
per-
..
supports life of itself.f^^^^''^^*^''^'''^^'^%
elements, and hence
which
wine."
carbonaceous
food, possessing nitrogenous,saline and
Buttermilk
of
use
Liebig, Napier, Fowler, Schlickeysen and
mal
people find that they can take wine with anifood.
Milk
not with farinaceous
or
amylaceous
valuable
most
a
for the
if drank
has
ficially
bene-
copiouslyacts
system the
the
of alcohol
use
for the lactic acid
of
excess
waste
to be retained
caused
in
the
system to its detriment, inducing snch disorders as gout,
rheumatism, disease of kidneys,skin,liver,
lungs,heart, "c.,
'"
It is the
diet
principalarticle of
asylums on the continent.
some
Oatmeal
and
diet,
Graham
meal
are
for
inebriates
the
valuable
very
',^*
.'f ift*^ ':"i'^''ji'li','
"i^j \*'5Q"''S?^r}:^S?^'tV'^^'^'^
'
'
"
i
Alcohol
ties of
a
is not
perfect food, viz.,the
nothing to feed nerve,
waste.
ilkidir
"
^t
the
the
r
^
:
*"!".,/'-;;.;
look
we
rule hold
around
good
Some
very
drunkards
lean
follows
is almost
that,
as
01
tne
^-
the
eat
the most
little
craving*
,?i\m
to
of
*;TV'j;j"f
n-vTii
'At"l
of tj*^
p"'opei*nishing
element, fur-
muscle,
or
to
"^"rfji.-'ir'^^-rO'w
the
meat."
supply
repair
i.J?J^ff"-'-
bread,
(Fowler.)fs^-r"M''
will have
the
"""
liquor,eat
most
meat, and
and
A
shall find
potatoes, white
as
of carbonaceous
must
articles
intemperate,we
except
destitute
the system
or
r-^ ':
drink
food, such
quarter, liquor is drunk
Cause
carbonaceous
that those who
least carbonaceous
only owe
bone
"::":"
among
fruit,puddings, "c., and
'
fi
If
it contains
food,as
a
in
as
this when
it
properties,
it from
carbon,
hence
some
the
t*ii''j'i4"tyw(Tr".JT''^!f?^t"*i'ii'*Htw;
\s"
^\"
39
'
Mr.
Lewis
knows
little the
how
given amount
a
"^
Liebig tells
and
withheld
the
"
"
Life
Physiologyof Common
of
amount
replacesa given
ordinaryfood.
in
us
money
"^v
"
cohol
Al-
Ever}^one
him
alcohol
places
re-
of food."
when
beer
temperance circles,
found
given instead,it was soon
of
monthly consumption
bread
was
so
was
that
creased
strikinglyin-
twice
paid for,once in money and
He also reports the experienceof a landlord
again in bread.
the
Peace
The members
Congress at Frankfort.
during
and
observed
was
were
teetotalers, a regulardeficiency
daily
the farinaceous
in certain dishes,especially
puddings,"c.
made
found that men
It was
they
up in pudding what
in
wine.
neglected
for the relinquishmentof meat
The second reason
by the
is this,meat
inebriate
by its stimulatingeffect upon the
nervous
system prepares the way for intemperance. Other
meat
thingsbeing equal,the more
peopleeat the more
likely
become
drunkards.
It
is
well-known
fact that
a
they are to
the
brain
action
its
has
e
ffect
meat
an
by
exciting
upon
upon
was
"
-.
To
eats.
that in
that the beer
"-""'..'"'%'
drunkard
says:
all
our
-
Y"(iBmons,-'':'''^^---'''''-^^'''^^^'^''^'''^
mercurial
nature
more
are
excitable,
lively,
likelyto have a desire for liquorthan those of a dull, slow
A y)hlegmatictemperament may
drink
or
stupid nature.
temperament always to excess.
moderately,a nervous
ever
Meat or any kind of food or drink,or any influence whatthat will stimulate the nervous
system, will produce or
which
is so favorable to
increase
that nervous
excitability
Persons
of
a
'
drunkenness.
^\m
6
/
It has been said of
of meat
which
Kean,
he ate to the
."
"
S
;,i"
'
"'
""
"
the actor, that he suited the kind
part he
was
about
to
play,seleotI
40
for lovers, beef for murderers, and
itig mutton
pork for
If
be
under
formidable
brain
a
man
laboring
tyrants.
any
disease,the consultingphysician will at once prohibitmeat j
in the
or
he must
eat
paralytic,
i"?jn8"
excitingto the brain,
has this stimulating effect has
altogethertoo
'""
That
meat
Beasts
observation.
proved by
i
the
of
case
cruel and
Feed
it is
yw^i"j^5f"^"fif
i
been
birds of prey,
and
ferocious.
meat,
no
4k
amply
live
who
largelyon
increase
their ferocityand
and
meat
improve their
you
h
ence
meat-eating peopleusually easily
fighting qualities,
diet meat
does not
those into whose
so
overcome
largely
flesh,
are
on
an
army
ir
the old
Hence
enter.
beef
raw
adage, give
i-f'^\tmi4^'"
et
"
a
prize fighterplenty of
i:iih^ti^n^\it\
.i^a" (ifjlieijr
^
ordinary domestic animals have their dispositions*
irascible by having
changed by meat diet,that swine grow
flesh food given them, is well known,
much
that
so
so
A
watch
moredog becomes
they will then attack men.
marauders
i
ffed
a
nd
will
attack
more
on
fierce,
readily,
meat
i^iiio?""3"i 01
.#tor0Jt(m^i"
o'mA^^^^dl
exclusively.'^^'^"^'-'^* ^^ *"" ^*
The Lancet
says (1869 and 186, vol.1), A bear kept at the
That
the
*
*'
Museum
Anatomical
long
position
days feeding on
few
The
celebrated
has
While
and
fed
was
made
meat
black
having
ferocious
child
as
of the
to
owner
been
be
him
Beef," of
"Joe
bears
large
stale bread, sugar
on
showed
quiet,gentle dis;
exclusivelyon bread, but a
familiar, allowing themselves
ago, after
80
he
three
fed
Giessen
of
as
so
fed
on
meat
carried
vicious
and
quite
even
canteen
treal,
notoriety,Mon-
and
cubs
and
two
water
in
they
to be handled.
for
quitedangerous.
and
a
him
some
One
away
a
cellar
are
gentle
But
a
year-
time, they grew*
of them
into
seized
the
a
dark'
^
4^
41
the
where
cellar,
riiahed after to the
The
rescue.
brute
maddened
4h^
father
beingdeprived of its prey by the father
snatchingthe child and throwingit out of the hatch into the
and would have
room
above,seized the man
by the thigli,
torn him to piecesbut for a strong blow dealt it with a brick
the forehead.
On returningto the bread and sugar diet
on
The experience
they resumed their peaceabledisposition.
of all menagerie keepershas been the same.
Dr. Thomson, London, in Experimental
Researches on the
Food of Animals, "quotesa narrative of the effect of a repast
*'
of meat
native
some
on
Indians whose
he says: "
vegetables;
themselves as if they were
fruit and
They
never
customary fare
ate most
to
eat
was
fing
stufheartily,
again.
After
the
two, to his great surpriseand amusement,
and gesticulations
expressionof their countenances, their jabbering
hour
an
or
showed
effect
same
as
clearlythat the feast had produced the
or
drug. A second
any intoxicatingspirit
repastwi:"s attended with
A
ance
the
same
result."
in which
third way
meat-eatingperpetuatesin temper,
its
is by
membrane
the mucous
effect upon
irritating
or
already diseased stomach, increasinggastritis
in
exists
of
w
hich
stomach
the
inflammatorycongestion,
all drinkers.
work to
By meat giving the stomach more
do than would vegetablefood gastritis
is increased,
thirst
which a feelwithout
ing
is increased,and this calls for liquor,
of unutterable
sinking is felt at the pit of the
and so the
relieves,
stomach,"which a fresh glassof spirits
drinker thinks he must
drink, and eats meat because ho
thinks that alono will satisfyhis hunger and strengthen
and stimulants,
with his meat
him, and so he goes on
1 meat, perpetually.Confirmed
stimulants
an
gastritis
of
an
'*
%r
42
result.*",
despondency and
When
consider
we
less
more
or
ence
with
alcohol,is it
influences,or,
"the
grace
as
The
other
diseased
regimen
the
marked
the
brain
that
at
drink
be treated
must
insisted
suffers
interfier-
caused
by
and religious
expressing it,
moral
fond of
are
religionists
is so powerless to save, or
even
nently
permawhich
victim of the physicaldisorder
wo
must
organs
not
is
beyond question a physical
as
such.
only
be
to
such
The
stomach
cure"i,but
a
the
case
stomach
and
brain
advanced
has
and
proper
are
degree
a
that
tho
thoroaghly diseased, what is the us"
of God," in the flippant
It is
way
the "grace
spoken of, curing the disease, or
how
moral
can
and
gious
reli-
craving for strong drink ?
Divine
aid may
assist a ratioral man
to keep an
appetite
in subjectionas
chained
such
a
an
tiger,but to remove
God
works
by fixed laws
appetite is a difficulty.Besides
which
He
is too consistent to break, and not even
in answer
He
is
inconsistent
to prayer,
some
ever
as
foolishlysuppose,
influence
with
Himself
A
reformed
There
take
and
away
His
a
fixed
drunkard
man's
natural
manner,
recentlytold
me
in
he
at
the
tippling,and a
weeks) destroyed himself
too much
morphine.
was
boastingway
a
is
whereas
time,
same
short
time
in
fit of
a
4
"
laws.
nothing but the grace of God can
cant phrase in
drunkenness," using the same
'"
^y
on.
When
talking of
of
drunkard
some
of God"
disease,and
every
functions
inebriety.
appetitefor strong
term
depressionfollow.
confirmed
be wondered
to
mental
gastritis,and
normal
benefit,the
of
that
from
the
excessive
cure
a
man
:
of
positive
I afterwards
as
learned,
afterwards
(about two;
despondency by taking
a
most
*
43
G. L.
Walker, D.D.,writingon
the
subjectof regeneration,
doctrine
that regeneration
concerning the much-vaunted
the
removes
thing
Nophysicalappetitefor strong drink, says :
could be more
Conversion
untrue.
does
dangerous or
not always, if indeed permanently ever, remove
an
appetite
for strong drink."
This doctrine of complete eradication of appetite
version,
by conbesides being untrue, is most
and like-*
discouraging,
to reason
true, be
ly to lead a converted man
that,if it were
should not find his desire still tempting him
and conclude
that religionis all a mistake.
Unless
the appetitefor strong drink
be removed
the reformation
habit
of the
gives no securityagainsta return to
the old paths. The drunkard's
family live,as it were, on the
slopesof a volcano,which is but smoulderingand may burst
forth with increased fury at any time.
Then
let the superhuman efforts that have been wasted in
the past on the hearts and minds of erring fellow-creatures
be intelligently
directed
of their mode
to the reformation
and
of living,eating,"c., "c., and the chances of
manner
will be greatlyimproved, and many
success
poor inebriates
who
have
been considered
hopelesssaved and made useful
of society.
and respectedmembers
"
4
%,
I wouM
of
a
recommend
drunkard
a
to procure
Eadical
The
Electricity,"
in
i
worthy
curative
in the reformation
carefullyFowler's
Intemperance."
remedial
a
as
electricity
Cure
value
of
of the
degree of
depends upon
applied. In conjunctionwith
and
interested
and read
of
states
dilapitated
the
one
any
human
system
with
intelligence
very
'*
tarianism
Vege-
agent
greatly
which
it is
its restorative
proper remedies
exhausted
nerve-tissue
is
effects upon
of all consideration.
"
45
by
the
The
changes
of tissue that accompany
of
state
poisoningis
the
of
one
due, not only to
by the blood to
exists,but
to
a
molecular
great
amount
the remotest
tissues where
direct
healthy
a
in
nerve.
of
condition
curre
How
which
much
draw
tions.
contrac-
chronic
alcoholic
derangement. This is
of hydrocarbon carried
the immense
rapidlydestroysthe nervous
to
in
system
nervous
muscular
a
filament
nerve
innutrition.
'/itswhen
directly
applied
toittt^
more
Alcohol
it affect th^
their
consequently,
nutriti0A,'and,
vigor,solelyfrom blood rendered
of aloohdlic
unhealthy by a long-continuedcourse
fureviously
currents
nerves
their
force and
saturation.
"
The
nervous
may
be
produced by
symptoms
confounded
with
the abuse
locomotor
of stimulants
ataxy, paralysis
agitans,metallic tremens,
the
brain
or
spinalcoi
"Daralvsis.''"''^*''''"**"
f-n
^
The
tional
^
R-
-^"i**^^-^'^''*^vU^ij^saH ,f.ui"j#ii--.
condition called oinomania
insanity,characterised
by
is
-
one
.iiooaj"r'iioiyto
of
periodic fits of
constitu-^
excessive
of common
drinking,with obliteration of all sense
decency.'
^ In
in
alcoholism
the
all
stimulants
shonlld
yoiing,
treating
be interdicted at once
ef
; in the aged,owing to the condition
structural
and
the
the circulation
changes taking placoj
in
be
allowed
diminished
stimulants
greatly
quantity,
may
and graduallydropped altogether.
be administered
should
current
The galvanic or Faradaic
for
time
-time
bed
short
before
a
(say 15 to 30
e^ery night
of the spinal nerve
course
rooti*,/
minutes) to the whole
from
cervical
the
sympathetic aiid^
changing alternately
the ^
over
pneumogastHc to the pitof the stomach, as dii'eotly
^
t"
mental
partialparalysisft*om disease of
I, and the early stages of general
46
plexusas possible.In mild cases
galvanism of the pneumogastric alone.
solar
In
confirmed
remedies
time, to
has followed
success
this treatment,
conjointlywith other
indicated,must be perseveredin steadilyfor some
such complete restoration as may
be relied
secure
cases
upon.
In
enlargement of the liver,spleen or
chronic congestion of the kidneys,or in cases
of confirmed
drunkards'
the application
of a stimulatingelectric
dyspepsia,
must
be
current
sedulouslyappliedover the organ deranged,
and, if perseveredin,the happiestresults will follow.
The very great increase of heat produced by muscular
contractions,with the accompanying increase of heat produced,
the modificathe increased
tions
absorption of oxygen,
and exosmosis, the change in the form
of endosmosis
of the blood,all the recogand color of the red corpuscles
nised
molecular
and chemical
phenomena that result from
electrization of the tissues,
helpto account for the wonderful
and often rapid increase of weight, with improvement in all'
the vital functions resultingfrom the continued
of electricity."
use
'^
(Campbell.)
of chronic
cases
**
The
Acne
excessive
Bosacea
drinkers
which
attacks
the
and
nose
face
hons vivants is due to diseased
and
stomach
and
liver.
Correct
ditions
con-
habits of
'*
the
of
application
a
mild
electric current
^."f-^p- '""* ^
"V'"*^-T*;?"*""?;*""
"*"*
""
-*
of
living,
from
total abstinence
milk,
stimulants,and a well-regulated
fruit and farinaceous diet assist in removing the cause.
efficient remedy
to be an
Experiments show electricity
for the evil effect of excessive
nos^f
drinking on the human
by th#
(which, however, may be very closely simulated
the
of
effects from certain disordered conditions
liver). By
of the
a
*N
to
"
noses
of
theii
i%1^.t.
A-V"^fe.f
""j*.lt'a,-*..l
4,iT^t^^--..'V.K.^.
"
a
*L
47
most
bacchanalian
time
appliedover
made
again as the flesh of a little child."
be easilyproven
by experiment, and might
"come
to
hue, tho negative pole being at same
the region of the liver,the flesh may
be
This
fact may
be illustrated by reference
some
of very
of
nature
high
the
precludethe
to
rank
in
summed
of
the
individual
a
society,did not
number
of case*^
the confidential
and
to the interests
fidelity
of any such reference.
possibility
case,
benefits to be derived
The
the result in
up
as
from
of
electrization may
follows,when
nervously prostratedor
appliedto
otherwise
patients,
be categorically
the restoration
debilitated
;
Improvement in sleep. 2nd. Increased appetiteand
improved digestion. 3rd. Improvement in circulation. 4th.
Eelief of nervous
and
mental
depression. 5th. Eelief of
and pain. 6th. Regulation of bowels.
weariness
crease
7th. Inin size and hardness
of muscles and in the weight of
and capacityfor menthe body. Sih. Increased
tal
disposition
and physicallabor.
of the next most
This bringsus to a consideration
tant
imporof
in
the
the
inebriate
the
treatment
or
ly
nervousadjunct
prostrated
consists in and how to emploj'^
it
Massage What massage
1st.
"
"
for the restoration
over-taxed
of the debilitated
organism
is
of
organs
considerable
of
an
abused
importance
of equal value in the
understand, as there is no means
of the nervously debilitated generally,
in whom
to
ment
treatwe
reproduceblood and fat and restore nervous
This is employed in four different ways.
The ordinary
energy.
or the Swedish
popularmethod of rubbingdown patients,
to it,and
or
movement, is not massage
any a])proximation
will not produce its effects on the system.
chieflydesire
4
or
to
48
The
method
Ist
in
consi^tH
simply pinching iip the
the extrenutiesand
thoroughly over
the muscles, done
2nd. Pinching up
which
deeply,and seize as much
grasp
Over
xnuscuiar tissues.
bowels
the
both
with
this
plan
is
"
The
with
**
Sandwich
Islander.
body
be
the
may
fingers or
Properly done by
adopted
distance
a
the skin
and
fingersbut the most
is the
"This
from
skilled
of
a
the
Lomi-Iorai
with
apleximeter or
nurse
skilled
nurse
"
tions
applica-
it sends
tions
vibra-
point touched, not only
directlybeneath the hands
partsof the
remote
all these
and
"
lating
stimu-
muscles
massage
in
hand.
the nid
presuppose
at
a
the
,
gently hammered
whole
hands,
possibleof
as
dyspepsia,constipationand disorder of the liver.
3rd. Tapping and beating or percussion^ the
of the
skin
trunk.
of
the
"
body.
Sandwich
or
(Beard.)
Islanders
L
who
generaland special,?.e.,for the whole or part
It
of the body, and is performed by experienced women.
them
in kneading, squeezing, rubbing, in
consists with
the tenderest
to the
severest
various degrees, from
caress
grip. To perform this,or have it perforatedfor one, is one
his guest."
of the highest compliments a host can
pay
(Emerson.)
of the joints This
consists in
4th. Passive movements
great and small, from the fingersto
moving all the joints,
and forwards, and rotating
the shoulders and bips,backwards
of times.
each a number
In paralysisand stiffness of
them
but also in nervous
beneficial,
jointsthis is especially
tration
prosdivide
it into
"
functional
and
derived
It may
from
nervous
affections great benefit
can
be
it.
take
fronji^Mteen minutes
to half
an
hour^ every
!
1
4U
day, moroing or evening on alternate days,as the oa^
may
of
alone
with
the
Carried
out
or
use
electricity.
require,
of
in
effects
the
haustion
myelasthenia or exthoroughly,
massage
of the spinalcord is signallybeneficial.
those of general faradization,
Its effects resemble
quickening
and equalizingthe circulation,
inducinggeneral quietude
j
to sleep,relievingpain and restlessness.
disposition
be systematicallyand skillTo secure
its benefits it must
fully
used.
The manipulator requires an intelligent
ciation
apprehave strength
of the requirements of eacli case, mast
and elasticity,
endurance
also time and
of hands and fingers,
patienceto do it thoroughly,which every physicianhas 'not
but every physiciancan
have nurses
trained in
at his disposal,
and
heroin
lies
the
of
of
the great
secret
the performance
it,
attained
in
success
by Dr. S. Weir Mitchell of Philadelphia,
and
the
of functional
treatment
A
women.
is detailed
nurse
disorders
nervous
to the
charge
of
of
so
many
nervous
cases,
of the duties.
for the
performance
"Its
Mosengeii, Bonn, says of massage:
be recognized,but it is not adapted for everyvalue must
day
will probably
use
by the busy physician. Specialists
from it.
get the best eSffect
and
hold
to strict account
ProfeKsor
von
Dr. Graham
back
of
Hippocrates and
by Sing of Sweden.
Mezger of Amsterdam
to
Dr.
with
of massage,
Crown
the
historyof massage,
Celsus,and in 1813 was
Prince
for
teachings of
time, seven
valuable
years
and
most
says it dates
Boston, on
which
he
has
treated
introduced
first systematized
a
new
the
successfully
system
Danish
with
jointmalady, in accordance
Physiology and Pathology, since which
since,it has been acknowledged as a highly
worthy adjunct(when appliedby a skilled
a
chronic
60
nurse) in the
various
the
credit of
chronic
To
joints.
to
massage
inflftmmation,
Mezger belongs
the dignity of a
in the art of medicine.
Turkish
but
elevated
having
specialbranch
"
of the
inflammations
and
Baths
of neuroses,
treatment
and
baths
Russian
of service in many
are
be
indiscriminatelyrecommended
; they
require to be used with groat judgment.
A
bath followed
warm
by a cold sponge to the head and
'^
spineis easy of applicationand of great service.
cases,
cannot
Alternations
in the
use
In all
of hot and
cold spray
baths
are
of
of delicate females.
exhaustion
nervous
shower
or
patient should
quickly rubbed down
with a bath towel, soft or harsh to suit the feelingsof the
patient,until a gentleglow of heat is produced and a feeling
of exhilaration
and comfort remains.
Once a day is sufficient
In the very weak, every other day.
in most
cases.
In neurasthenia
Medication
or
nerve
exhaustion, we have
no
entity,no foreign poison introduced
disease-producing
into the system, but simply mal-nutrition
giving poverty of
abnormal
and
action in the ultimate
force withinstabilit}'^
nerve
substance
mplecules of the nerve
comprising the nerve
the
cases
be
"
Hence
centres.
realitybe a tonic or
In the genuine red
best
our
medicine
any
be
of
service
in
must
alterative.
nerve
cinchona
tonic and
nerve
to
or
extract
alterative, and
of Loxa
that
bark
which
get
we
proves
wisely administered in the restoration
of nervous
exhaustions, whethfe.' spinalor cerebral.
In nervous
"f temper, the best
or
irascibility
irritability
effect is obtained
from
hydrobromic acid in liberal doses
most
successful
with
small
In
when
doses
quite a
of
number
i-^^o
quinine.
ef
cases
the disorder
or
v
vir
general nervous
I:
^1
exhandtion
local organ
depondenl upon disoases of some
is
the
it
which
maintained,as
liver,stomach, kidneys or
by
reproductiveorgans.
search
out any such local disIt is always necessary
to
orders,
relieve them
and
before we
by suitable treatment
can
expect relief of the genetalsymptoms.
The
is
of the local disorder
treatment
should be firstattended
tOj else disappointmentsand failures innumerable
will be the
result.
'
local treatment
and
Constitutional
Continued.
In
drinkers
spirit
either
organ,
have
whose
condition
of
have
been
would
be
If
are
cases
centres.
neglectof
of
doses
of
local disease of
whole
some
here
trouble,and
we
on
the
crave
be the centre
may
the
or
fiitigue
fVom
eh tire
work,
rest
local
any
and
the
appetites
system;
Neglect of
which
pivot on
over
which
desires and
morbid
without
gdW6^alexhaufiitibn
so
with
treatment
succelss mu^t
IO(ial
disb^W
nerve
tonics
"'^
required.
muriatic
judiciously
may depend.
child-bearing,
leavingan exhausted
womb,
disease
excessive
Tinct.
be
kidneys, and
the
driiik
and
prostration
spread throughout
local
to have
centres
nerve
other
from
sure
stomach, liver,or
excessive
of the
flame
In
are
the whole
existence
In females
,t
the
we
fbci in which
the
should
"'^*'
quinine with the dilute nitroacid acts kindly and
or
beneficially,
teaspoonful
will
still
Easton's syrup three times a day
answer
nux.
vomica
and
better.
meaorrhagiayexcessive menstruation or weakness of the
womb, causinggeneralweakness in the female with a craving
In
53
stimulant
wonderful
*,
to
take-
tonic
Perseverance
is
oaxitt"{din the
the
other stimulant, but a
place of some
remedy affordinga supply of true vital'
s^n
of
element
inebriates,and
of
treatment
which
success
is
cannot
required
be
on
the part of all interested,including physici(^"u^|riends,
nurse,
and
patient.
The
is applicable
plan of treatment
foregoing combined
with
to cases
of inebriety,opium
very slight modification
mania, melancholia, nerve
exhaustion, hysteria and sexual
disorders,bearing in mind that it is the way in which these
of cure
used that determines
the result,and a
means
are
return
to
The
active
normal
emaciated
life the
reward.
be surprised
dyspeptic by this means
may
in fat and weight of body, and by their
at their increase
capacity for taking and assimilating large quantities of
healthy food astonishing their friends and relatives.
of the chloride of gold and
The inebriate,
use
by persistent
of cinchona, has his nervous
extract
system and glandular
so
dition
changed, toned up and restored to a healthy conorgans
that absolutely no desire for a stimulant
is ever
felt,
but to
press
and
it upon
their
repugnant.,,,,,,,,^,.,,
always
always bo learned
be
modus
,^p,^
so
wanton
operandi a
or
that
again
in the
reckless
as
second
time.
expect friend
makes
it
positively
once
learned
,,,;,,
to be remembered
It is
can
acceptance
same
to
"
-
a
habit
manner
expose
if the
son
per-
himself
to
the
-
physician to act as a special
ginning
guardian angel through life to guard against the first beand self-preservaof a new
tion
teraptacion.Self-respect
be the
must
guardian sentinel to ward off the first
No
one
can
or
54
.
-"",!/"",
r.i,":^=:":^ti
to renewal
approacbes
of the evil habit;
and friendsare
if theylead a cured inebriateinto temptation
criminally!cnlpable
wine
by offering
other alcoholic bevei.Mge. '*^*^
or
-
!v-.''
is most
and hastily
imperfect
to
those
trust
it
but
I
a
anxious
as
serve
guide
may
written,
to save their dear ones from the coilsof this monster serpent,
.j
j
^
intemperance.
This outline of treatment
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.
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AND
DIBTABT
I. An
and
exclusively vegetable, fruit
is necessary,
milk,
HEGULATIONS.
SANITARY
while
batter
under
treatment.
milk
fresh
milk, or
farinaceousdiet
The
free
absence
in the
of
use
sour
of
both
of
the former.
%, Acid
"c.,are
baths morning and
","^
hard
down
-!,
crash
with
necessary
4.
follow
towel
a
every
while
"
evening, or
be insisted or^
evening, must
a
Acid
as
fruits,
grapesi
desirable*
very
3. Hot
lemonade, "c.
drinks, as
the
Early
after each
a
day,
and
bath.
early to
rise
"
is
in
well rubbed
body
Sponging
with
wet
vinegar And
sponge
morning during the early part of
night sweats continue.
to bed
in these
and the
once
a
good
the
with
body
the
water
is
ment
the treat-
maxim
to
cases.
s.f6.Eegularity in eating is essential.
V:6.
Regulate
frequently,on
bowels
the
an
by
taking
stoma,ch
empty
seidlitz
powders
in. the morning
when
necessarv.
\
J
f
while under
(ifpossible)
be followed, supply the
cannot
treatment, or, if that course
kind
imaginable,
patient with a small quantity of every
and place them
freely within his reach, tellinghim to help
himself as this is his last chance, bat take
that,
good care
his
medicine
drunk
he
swallows ^ dose 9f
or
sober,
every
,7. Avoid
taking liquorof
third hour.
any
kind
.jfifts
-
,
J,."U J ,
.
^
,
-^i
.
I V
rmmi^^sn^ti^am
56
8. There
under
restraint
such
he
gained hy placing a patient
will prevent him from obtaininga
as
have a craving for,since thereby
may
nothing to
is
glassof the liquorhe
an
impressionis left on his
it at that time, he might
enjoyed it,and he never
the
privation,and revenge it by
at the first opportunity:in this way
remember
to
ceases
taking a double dose
^re to be
many relapses
is that he be
that, if he could have had
mind
confined
have
to
one
What
for.
accounted
where
room,
is necessary
all his requirements
be
and
his attendants
be
where
can
supplied,
and
and
the
dfetary
sanitaryregulations
/^
m-;.,,
be
medical treatment
can
fullycarried out.
9. It is indispensably
that thi^-feledicin^
ptenecessary
Bcribed be taken regularlyas directed (which is usually
six times a day, a teaspoonfulin a wine-glassof water, or*
if the desire to drink
oftener
is very strong).If nausea
of
is experienced at first the strength of the
the stomach
can
certain that
m
edicine
10. The
However
medicine
must
the
malady
enfeebled, are
in
nervous
state
inebriates
until
persistently
been
removed
"
to
tonguei.
in
nature
^"
tlie
keep
^^
au
^'
n*^
the usual doses
be distasteful to
w^
him,
and
is
.ii^"f^t"^
and
glandularorgans
excitement, frequently
changes requiring the protracted
system
having undergone
of tonic and
application
rest and
nourishment, to effect
confirmed
point is
beeorae
of morbid
structural
old and
has
"^mm'
altogether;'^
the
a
stomach
be continued
patientfinds liquorto
it
the
great
a
on
drug continually
inclined to refuse
In this
until
reduced
it.
to
of the
until the
be
may
accustomed
taste
the
alterative
their
the
all doubt
restoration,hence
treatment
of
treatment, with
a
should
permanent
will then do the rest.
be
in
tinued
con-
has
cure
i%Q^
'
t