THE EVIL OF "NIPPING."

Tuapeka Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1904, 15 June 1892, Page 6

THE EVIL OF "NIPPING."

Professor Sir George Humphrey, F.R.S., in addressing the Cambridge Temperance Association recently (says the ' British Medical Journal'), took occasion to protest agaiDst the common form of intemperance in drinking, which was short of drunkenness, but which, as it was general, was more prejudicial, and waa doing more damage than actual drunkenness. This was the habit of " nipping." Taking a glass now, a glass then, and a glaas oftan ; in the morning (which was worst of all), at the mid-day meal, in the afternoon, and in the evening. Even more than drunkenness, thi3 was terribly damaging to the system ; it made men soddened, and was evitfeed in a general shakiness of the band, sometimes of the step, und above all, of the tongue ; in fact, a general ahakiness of all the organs. The "nippers" succumbed to slight accidents, plight illness, or slight shocks of any kind. Prick them, and the life, as it were, ran out of them. They say "My work is hard," and they took the very means which unfitted them foi good and prolonged work. By temperance in drink, he meant that nothing should hs taken whatever, under any condition, except at meals, and very little then. Those who could not be absolutely temperate and content with moderation, should become total abstainer?.,