THE FREQUENT NIP.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 149, 12 October 1876, Page 3

THE FREQUENT NIP.

It. now becoming the common custom, we (•* Medical Examiner") hear—not so ranch, perhaps, in London as other seats of commerce-, such as Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham,. &c.—to seal most business transactions with '* a drink," whish varies according t»> circumstances, front " the pint ot : bitter" to "the bottle of sparkling." It is further stated, on retiable authority, that this custom is equally itt vogtte at all hours in the day. The partners in targe houses do not, perhaps, put the finishing touch to their transactions in the open wrey that their juniors do, but the bottle of sherry and the tin of biscuits are generally close at hand in the private ortke, nnd are called into requisition more frequently than is either necessary or expedient. This habit is one against which w© cannot too strongly inveigh. As far as health is concerned, it is more than probable that small but repeated duces of alcohol do far greater injury to the tisanes than larger quantities, snch as these taken by the working man when Saturday night comes round. The experience of most physicians would probably be that the patient whose health has been wrecked by drinking, is the man who has been in the habit of taking frequent sips of hotter. Such men will often boast that they have never been drunk in their lives, but their livers are nevertheless hopelessly hob-nailed" front alcohol, (t would be sad to see such a result arising amongst our yoftng business-men from the friendly but deleterious habit of the " frequent nip."