Or WM %Oda Ca** itrild. No. 73.-Vol.. V.
PERTH, THURSDAY, MAY 22, 1879.
PRICE 6D.
of medical men stimulating the system at a critical time, Many of the nervous classes of diseases, facts, and the opinions in all countries, it would be amongst the most excellent such as paralysis, epilepsy, and mania of the very first eminence of I will now or madness, are the certain fruit of and in all ages, and the experience gifts of art to mankind. The following is the substance of a notice the injurious effects of alcohol spirituous excitement. The ordinary millions of total abstainers are at all to lecture delivered to the members of the when taken into the body. It reduces headache, which follows alcoholic pota- be relied on they are anything but in Catholic Temperance Society in St. the animal temperature, and does not tions, proves the peculiar sensibility of favour of their general use. Stephen's School Room, Brisbane, by supply vital heat as is commonly sup- the brain to their morbid influence. Then if alcoholic drinks do for the of James H. Fitzgibbon, Esq.:In fevers alcoholic stimulants are not moment cheer and impart a flush posed ; nor does it prevent the loss of The lecturer said : " When it is re- heat, as those imagine who take a drop now used by medical men as frequently, transient pleasure to those who crave collected that thousands of valuable to keep out the cold. Cold and alcohol, or in such quantities as they were wont for drink-their influence doubtful even lives are annually sacrificed to the use in their effects on the body, act in the to be ; and by some they are not used in this modest moderate degree, is an of intoxicating drinks, it is not too same manner. The vegetable kingdom at all. I will read for yon what Dr. infinitely small advantage by the side of much to aver that their influence upon yield in abundance the principles which Jones and other medical men say on the an infinity of evil for which there is no the human system deserves the most form the flesh and those which keep up subject compensation, and while the evil is proits At the heat of the body, but the sound calm and scientific investigation. Dr. Jones, consulting physician to moted and encouraged there is from any rate, the dreadful havoc which is plant never produces alcohol, and the the Cork Fever Hospital, says : " No root no human cure."-The Australian. made on society by their general em- body not merely does not produce it, but agent requires more skill to obtain the ployment is calculated to urge a deep treats it as a foreign element, and gets good and avoid the evil which their use Jesuits and the Republic. and earnest enquiry how far they are rid of it as fast as possible. It is a entails, in fever, too much reliance absolutely necessary for the sustenance narcotic compound like chloroform, but has been placed on alcoholic stimulants. The Springfield Republican questions of man. It is a question which in- is less fatal as an immediate destroyer. And further, that fashion rather than which intivolves considerations of the highest in- Still it kills in its own way to the ex- reason, has swayed many M.D.'s in a note in the Boston Pilot mated that the Jesuits are not foreign terest to the human race, and considera- tent of 50,000 annually in England, the their indiscriminate employment. America. The Pilot replies tions which force themselves daily upon same in America, and 10,000 in Russia. I am aware that to Dr. Beaumond The labours and explorations of the the attention of every thinking man. Its method of killing is slow, indirect, tonics and other alcoholic drinks are emearly On no subject has the public mind and by painful disease. Again, alcohol, ployed in the treatment of disease by Jesuits are so interwoven with the history of the continent, as may be seen on the abused as thoroughly been so by taking up the oxygen supplied many eminent physicians ; and if renature and properties of alcoholic drinks, through the lungs checks the burning liance is to be placed on their statements in the pages of Bancroft, Prescott, and their action on the human system, and of tissue upon which life and the pro- on this head with actual advantage, I Parkman, that historians are obliged, the diseases which they produce. All duction of energy, muscular or mental, must say, however, that in strictly not only to recount them, but to borrow " classes have been misled ; nor have depend, and similarly it impedes the similar cases to those referred to, I hav e material from their " Relations a medical men been suffered to escape the efforts of the body to get rid of waste had more success without anything of the published in Paris. Mr. Girardin, in great delusion ; hut, thanks to the matters which are products of burning. sort. I further believe that I have ad- paper read before the Michigan Pioneer agitation which has been going on for It thus lowers vitality, vitiates the ministered alcohol with disadvantage to Society, showed that the Jesuits were some years, few now are disposed to blood, and prevents the production of my patients, and I believe that thous- " the pioneers of the country." The Indians still reverence the concede to alcoholic drinks, the salu- healthy matter on account of the d im inw- ands have been sent prematurely to the tary properties which they were sup- tion of the supply of oxygen required grave through the injudicious use of memory of the Jesuit Father Marquette, who broke through the pathless forests posed to possess. Medical men are for vital purposes. The stimulation alcoholic stimulants. of Illinois and explored the Mississippi. more indebted to the temperance move- produced by alcohol is succeeded by a Dr. Munro lecturer on forensic The Jesuit Father Dreuillettes, " first ment for sound and rational views on recoil or reaction, and to produce a cer- medicine in the Hull schools of medicine, this subject than to the recognised prin- tain effect of stimulation, the quantity says-My experience is that in fever of Europeans," as Bancroft testifies, made the painful journey from the St. ciples of medical science. we loose 25 per cent. by the alcoholic taken must be constantly increased The great conditions of health are, from this cause moderate drinking tends treatment, and only 5 per cent. without Lawrence to the Kennebec. The "Xavier of America," Brebeuf, trawholesome food, pure air, moderate ex- to pass into excessive. it ; he has found in hospital treatment versed the country of the Hurons, and I ercise, sound sleep, and good water. Dr. Beamount says, " It may be that one in every ten died if treated made the first map of the territory, as a hold that a good water supply would 39 with&c., and one in brandy, with brother Jesuit, Mailla, had before made The great Boer- worthy of enquiry whether there are out. lessen intemperance. the first map of China and the East laave says that food, not too fat and not more deaths from the effects of inDr. Gardiner, of Glasgow says that Indies. Jesuits bore the cross to the gross, and water as a drink, renders our moderate drinking than victims to The temperance, At any rate, no man who just as he diminished the quantity of confines of Lake Superior "five years bodies the more firm and strong. drinks can say wines and spirits the deaths diminished. before the New England Elliot addressed most generous diet may be supplied indulges in intoxicating without a drop of intoxicating liquor. what mischief may not ensue or to what To give alcoholic stimulants while with- the Indians six miles from Boston holding milk, beef tea, &c., is simply, in Harbour." From Mount Deseret in Numerous arguments can be adduced extent it may proceed." Dr. Elliottson, in his report on human his opinion, to destroy the patient. The Maine of California the Jesuits have to show that alcoholic drinks do not add you give and brandy the left their mark ; and, as Bancroft strenth to the body, and that their use Physiology, says : -" The total ab- more wine your says, " no river was crossed, no cape renders the body more susceptible of stinence from alcoholic drinks will more sure you aro to destroy was turned that a Jesuit did not lead atmospheric changes, and our artificial greatly augment health and lengthen patient quickly. I will now enumerate for you the the way." habits more destructive of health. We life." " A publication of the Maryland may compare the action of alcohol on Dr. R. Greville, in his evidence before principal diseases which may be prothe system to that of the spur in the a committee of the House of Commons, duced by alcoholic drinks, but let it be Historical Society shows that the first side of the horse-eliciting force, not observes It is my deliberate opinion understood that they are not always the great plea for liberty of conscience was supplying it. that the use of intoxicating drinks and cause. Diseases may be induced by made in 1658, by the Jesuit Father The great wear and tear of life is oc- liquors is unnecessary to the healthy other influences and other agents, but Fitzherbert. " Jesuits began colleges in Quebec casioned by the exhausting influence of human constitution, and that the alcohol is an agent capable of producing moral and physical excitement, and is strength they seem to impart is them, and it is actively employed in the and New York before Havard touched it not clear to add the stimulus of in- temporary and unnatural ; it is a pre- work. 1st., we have alcohol, phthisis, these shores. " From the days when the Jesuit toxicating drinks to the ordinary stimu- sent injury practised at the expense of or drunkard's consumption. (Read extract from Dr. Richardson) 2. Alcoholic Serbiewski, the Horace of Poland,' by lus of arduous mental or bodily toil " is future weakness." lighting the candle at both ends." In Dr. Courtney, of the Royal Navy, disease of the heart. 3. The eye- the spirit of his fervid poety, stirred up the stomach alcohol undergoes very little says that " the use of intoxicating calculus, disease of the brain and spinal the Poles, under Sobieski, to sweep the change. It passes into the circulation drinks is their abuse," and that they cord. The mind-mania, arpsomium, Moslems from the beleagured walls of' with scarcely any mitigating of its cannot be enjoyed but at the expense of transmitted diseases, insanity, &c., &c. Vienna, and rescue Europe, the Jesuits The expense to the American Nation have ever been the friends of liberty. character. It carbonises the blood more the constitution. rapidly than would otherwise be the Sir A. Cooper, speaking to a medical caused by alcoholic drinks is well as- In the struggles of the American colocase. It enters the delicate and sensi- friend on the subject of alcoholic liquors cribed by Dr. De Marmean in the New nies, unlike the sects that were bound tive organs and tissues of the body, and or stimulents, said We have all York Medical Times for 1870. He to England by ecclesiastical and ;other in many ways lights up disease as pal- been most sadly deceived as to their says, "For the last ten years the use of ties, the Jesuits had every reason to spirits has first imposed on the nation give their sympathy to the young Repably as it excites the brain to infiama- remedial value." tion and delirium. It may be admitted The line of demarcation between the a direct expense of 600,000,000 dollars. public. One of the first acts England, that there are times in the life of man use and abase of alcohol is not, in my 2nd, has caused an indirect tax of on securing Canada, was to expel the 3rd, has destroyed Jesuits ; and it was peculiarly fitting when the heart is oppressed, when the opinion, very difficult to define. Its 600,000,000. resistance to its motion is excessive, application as a remedy should be 300,000 lives. 4th, has sent 100,000 that a Jesuit, Father Carroll, cousin of 5th, has Charles Carroll of Carrollton, should coand when the blood flows slowly and limited by the ability and skill of the children to the poor house. languidly to the centres of life, in tbese prescribing physician. The habit of ap- committed at least 150,000 people to operate with Franklin in gaining the moments alcohol frees the heart from plyiog it when it is not wanted as prisons and workhouses. 6th, has friendship of Canadians at the outbreak its oppression ; it causes the blood to readily as when it is wanted, over- made at least 1,000 insane. 7th, has of the Revolution. " It was fitting also that Franklin flow more briskly, and by quickening balances, in the multitude of men, the determined at least 2,000 suicides ; 8th, a failing heart enables the physician to temporary value that attaches to alcohol has caused by fire and violence a loss of should have for a co-labourer a member do work which otherwise could not he as a medicinal agent. If not limited by 10,000,000 dollars worth of property ; of the order, which, through Father done, and so tide over a period of un- the physician, alcohol, in any form, be- 9th, has made 200,000 widows, and Strada, as may be seen in Addison's Spectator (No. 24), had anticipated his usual demand which might prove too comes a dangerous instrument, even in 100,000 orphans." In conclusion, gentlemen, I say that discovery of electricity. Among the mu, h foi the overtaxed organs. Time the hands of the strong and wise, and a is gained for the exhibition of remedies, murderous weapon in the hands of the intoxicating drinks are not good for man very few friends of the colonies in in a state of health, and should not be Canada were the Jesuit Fathers and the administration of true force - foolish and weak. forming medicine. Could the use of Alcoholic drink is, and must be, the used except by direction of a medical Huguet and Floquet. " Washington evinced his regard for alcohol be limited to this purpose of baneful parent of innumerable diseases. man ; and if chemical and physiological
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