The Voice of Science.
Alcohol vitiate* the Mood, inflames the stomach, overtaxes tlie heart, destroys the kidneys, hardens the liver and toff to* the brain. - .VoMtuift AVer, M.l). • Alcohol is a potsoo. It kills in laigr doses, and half kill* in smaller one*. It produce* insanity, delirium, tits. It poison* the blood and waste* the man.—/Vdknar )*%. MUUf % M.l). • An c aperlence ol more thar twenty years-sometime a under exceptionally trying cm umstancr* - has proved to me that the daily use of alcohol, even in *mall quantities, is prejudicial in cold climates.—/>r. Aar, of Arctic Expedition. How I wish that the truth -that alcohol is not a food, not a sustainer
of living energies, ami that aP halut producing drugt aid drinks subvert the integrity of the luman nervous sy* tern—could lie engraved upon the hearts and lives of every man, woman and child in our land -(VA/m A, M.I). • The lieer drinker may lie the picture of hwaltli, hut in reality he is most incapable of resisting disease. A slight injury, severe cold, or shock to the tiody oi mind will commonly promote acute dise.ite ending fatally. Compareci with inebriates who use diHerent forms of alcohol, he is more generally diseased.— .S« tfMilfU Atmn.au.
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White Ribbon, Volume 10, Issue 115, 15 February 1905, Page 10
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