Its Purity Has Perils.
"There are cases where even purity of blood has it 3 dangers, paradox though it seems," observed a medical man.
"Take, for instance, the malarial regions in various parts of the world. The natives of such regions have their blood so impregnated with malarial poison that they nevei contract the disease. But let the white man whose blood is free from such taint camp for a night or two in the locality, and the chances are that he will be attacked with the fever in its most violent form.
" Much the same reasoning applies to alcohol. A celebrated doctor believes that the comparative sobriety which prevails in some Continental countries is due less to the superior self-restraint of the inhabitants than to the depravity of their forefathers. The purest-blooded people (from an alcoholic standpoint) are the most likely victims of drunkenness.
'"The moral -is that those who are blessed with pure blood should shun unhealthy habits and conditions, for they will suffer far worse from thorn than thopo whose organisms are already tainted with the virus of the harmful thing, whether it be alcohol, tobacco, impure air, narcotic drugs, or other unwholesome things. The purer the physical system the stronger will be Nature's rfmKion fiom them, and the sterner her tetribution if she is forced to submit."
Its Purity Has Perils.
Otago Witness, Issue 2541, 26 November 1902, Page 64
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