THE DAILY EVENING TKLKOIIA PI I P1I I L Al) K LP H I A , TUKSDAT, NOVEMBER 9, 1809. A U-QHOL AS MED1C1X E. trnort on ilic of Milmutnnfej At the annual meMlnRof the Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania, hnll In June, 1hx, Doc tors II. Corson, W. W. Townitend, and J. I. Stwart were appointee! to report on tlic following resolution iriii hv Dr Corson: "Hrwircd, That tho present terrible practloo of ' stimulation, which snnda Its victims dally by thou- Hands prematurely to the gr.v nivi wnioti mm our land with drunkenness and crime, cannot muoh longer maintain II Knlf in the confidence ami esteem fl the rellcetiiiR members of a great and learned profession. A modified, improved, regenerated pnvj liee, based upon common sens'1 und a Bound clinical observation, must take lis place, and thus carry healing and blessings upon its wings to the nations of the earth." The nndersigned (Dr. Stewart dissenting) beg leave to oiler the following REPORT. That as the language of that resolution was the sober, earnest utterance or J'rofcssor Kainuel J). Urons, of the Jefferson Medical Cnltc;o, before an andiencc of thousands of his fellow-citizens, a man who weighs well his words, and whose lenglheinsd, life and great medical experience entitle his decl i ralious to profound respect, we feel bjttud to eon aider It careiuly. 'l'Jio declaration, If true, Is appall ing: if erroneous, it Miotild be corrected. That tho use of alcoholic stimulants docs send its victims oaliy. by thomands, prematurely to the grave, and tills the land with drunkenness and crime, no one doubts. The query then arises: Are physicians re sponsible for this? The medical profession Is one of great antiquity, of high honor and commanding in fluence over the opinions and habits of the people, in all that, regmd Uvorubiy, or unfavorably, their health, or lennth of life. In all ages and in all co'in tries the "Medicine Man'' has controlled tlta minds of his people In relation to tho safety or danger of all their articles of food or medicine. The profession Is spread over every foot of the civilized world; Its member-wire welcome visitors in every family; their teachings are medical gospel, received in the ful ness of faith, and acted-out on the principle that self-preservation Is the lirst law of nature. Docs the physician say the health of the infant or in mother demands that it should betaken from tlio breast, "though 'tis joy to yield It m tls joy to sip y fchc makes the sacrllleo. Does he say a journey to and resilience in u distant and foreign cnuutry are essential to the restoration of the health of the lisi used and enfeebled wife 7 she separates herself from her home anil all its idols to gain the precious boon. Is the husband und father told by his physi cian that the chill, lank hand of consumption has hold of him, and that nothing but absence from his burnt fill home, and a residence for years in the frozen re gions ol Minnesota, or Lake Superior can loosen its grasp? not a moment, does he hesitate his business is stopped, li is homo is abandoned, und, tilled with hope and a holy belief that It Is a solemn duty lopro tect his life us long as possible, he leaves behind lilin all that have been dear to hlin, und hies him onward to his ilveaiy and desolate home la the midst of strangers, that his health may bo restored. The poor cottager, who cm barely, by the hardest, labor and greatest fnigalltr, procure 1 he necessaries of life for his family, wlicii tilt arc In health, should wife or children get. sick, stops not on account or expense, but coiiUdiug iu the skill of his phvsu ian, places the sick one in Ins hands and calmly und humbly submits to whatever of sacrifice may 1)0 necessary for lis preservation.. In every country, with every grade of society, uiuonjr high' mid low, rich and poor, learned und iit.kai lied, this falih in our profession, thii submission to our opinions, tilts acquiescence In the remedies we prescribe and the hygienic measures we advise, h (then with a readi ness which shows how great is the luiliiince of the medical profession. In times when cholera, or typhus or typhoid fever, or smallpox, or ma'ignant dysentery prevails, mi man will take food or driuk said by his physician to be harmful. Half a century ago, and eveti now, In some districts of country, no mother would allow her child, mulcted with measles, to take u single swallow ol cold water, although the llttnj sull'.iring creature plead In most piteous tones for a drink to cool ils parched and buniin;; mouth. Why did she refuse it ? liecauso the doctor said "it would make the measles strike in and kiil the child."' Even here, where the physician was wrong, the faith was whole. In 1832, when the Asiatic cholera lirst Invaded this country, every physician was besieged by swarms of people begging to ho Informed how they should live so as to avoid the pestilence. Clothing, food, and drink nil were regu lated by the liat of the doctor, and no one failed to carry out his directions to the very letter. Even the veriest quacks mere pretenders con trolled masses of people who believed In them. The "Cholera Physician of Montreal" tas Dr. Stephen Sayres, an eccentric- itinerant doctor, was called) had hundred ol people crowding around his house to get advice and medicine, and every cherished, long-indulged habit, was flung aside, if cudod in the slightest degree to predis tolfl tna . .. '"" dreaded malady. The love pose loi'O nt'ae.K m . unbroken volet of life is universal! ami !f fl" or the medical prolesston count hb ncari in iuu..u elation of any article of food or drink, lis cousump tion would soon be at an end. Witness the cifect ef a mere suggestion that there may be danger ffoiil Antitift tiitrt i,t w nr itiniiiTii'rlv iinnLril Tlirmaarwl.a nf I persons fear to eat It at all, even though cooked so thoroughly that no trichina could live under so great a heat, 'i'he bare supposition that one might still live and be taken into the system deters them. If, therefore, physicians were united on the subject ol the deleterious effects of alcohol, would it not bo utterly abandoned ? We venture to afUrm that in less than half a century, when those whom we have fatally indoctrinated into the belief that it is warm in sr. cooline. strengthening, tonic, and silni'ilutiiia that it calms the restless, enlivens the dull, Invigo- j rates the body, gives strength to the intellect, en- , livens the fancy, and brightens the imagination ; ! that it prevents sickness, and is a sovereign remedy , In disease; we repeat, when those thus deluded shall have passed away, the new generation, whoso . minds had not thus been poisoned by error, but who had I ik tc ned in blank astonishment to the wondrous 1 recital of the miseries which its reputed moderate, j judicious use had brought upon mankind, would In- , stlnctively turn with horror from contact with an ; evil so fearful. I Every writer on the diseases of the human system ! lias testified to trie direct agency or aiconoim stimu lants In producing a large number of diseases, and predisposing, by ils use, to nearly all others, or at least to making the system less able to resist tho action of deleterious agents. Do we hear you Bay, even if such are its effects, can its almost universal use be charged upon the profession? Let facts answer. Every physician whom we know person ally, all of whom we have heard, use and recom mend the use of alcoholic liquors In some form In their practice. The great majority use them freelv, iu trilling as well as in grave cases: on drunkards as well as on the total abstinence people; on thu child of a day and the parent of threescore and teu. They prescribe them in diseases of the kidneys, lungs, heart, braio, stomach, and every other organ, and yet they know full well that the discuses of those organs have been produced thou sands of times by these very agents. They also re commend them to be token by the weak, tho dyspep tic, and tho valetudinarian ; the aged because they are aged, the young because they are young, the nursing mother tiecuuse of the drain on her system (natural though it be und healthful); to those who are given up as hopeless, because they are (lying, and ' to the convalescent, because they are con valescing, und they cannot forego the glorious opportunity to show lliem how porter or ale, or whisky will "build them up." The eil'ect of such a course 1b to impress the community with a liigli opinion of the valuable medical, lifegiving properties of the various alcoholic drinks, of which wine, in its varieties, brandy, gin, and whisky make up the com mon stock. You must all have observed that, persons leaving home, to spend the summer in thu country, or at the, uea-sliore, or in the Jersey-pines, or on the moun tains, or at mineral springs, or at a country liome, are Invariably found to liavc brought with them, by direction of "my physician,"' some "good brandy,'' or "real Holland gin," or a few do.sn "brown stout," or some of the linn "old port." Many who take none ut home, now "by advice of mir doctor,"' bring it along tokeepoir chills, to pre vent the deleterious effects of change of water, to take a little morning and evening on aeeouut of the ttews, or a little ut noon to help digestion, and it is truly painful to a thinking, conscientious man, to see what confidence they have in tho preservative and remedial qualities of those ttrtieles so carefully mowed away in the trunk. The purjnt who hi Home would Milliliter to see ins c una lal.c a lime brandy at cadi meal, now under tha advice of hW physician deals out to every liieui'jer of ins family this life-preserver, this lis.c.n ;-d.':iler. Jle is mill more impressed with t'uu value of these remedies Iroui tno fajt tli.ti, while Ihe doctor was so careful to urg-i the Impnrtitn o ol taking the alcoholics along, he said not a word about the necessity tf tuklng Koine medicines, v.i.i-v.'. valuable in a'tlncks of pnin, or vimiiim;.', ordian li m, or loss ol appetite, or chills, or lever, or ln'ad.i ,ie. in this emission the patient sees a tacit acknowledg ment that the Miirinlaiil.1 in his bottles are sin, .-::-tntes for Mieni and better Hum them all. Who cau estimate the hiiiimt't of injury thus brought upon soeietv l Take a seat in railroad car on any of the long lines ol travel, seo the passengers as they rouse lhnnt-elves in tho mortiiiig when the sun Is just lighting up tiie mountain tups. The carpet-bag is i:iil(.ikid und the old port, or brandy, or whisky drawn forth, and its owner, looking timidly at the fig, Jiitt liLgiiing over the liver, preparatory til lit-nig disHipiiied by the liowuiK beams of day ilnuks ilei ;y, tlitinkliil that the antidote (or f ig is at hand. Lw in .pl. im. i i:;rs tie car I.h also brood, i trout me b ptli el his cvercoK'-iai- kct a Cut" of wli.sKy, ' u.e real irtli l1," and with a noble generosity Is handing It about to those near by, as something absolutely necessary to their safety, If they expect, to travel fsr, as hi doctor told hlni, years ago. always to have It with him. In every railroad ear of the thousands which dally traverse our immense country, on every steamship Hint ploughs theocean, not one but whoso passengers are freighted with alcoholic, st.tmnlants, prescribed lv their physicians as Important pre ventives of, and remedies, for disease. If, then, this picture be true, and not one can gainsay it, that 1n every house In the land, on board every railroad car, and on every ship that sails or strums the ocean, this agent is used bij advice, af the prntnin, us preventive and curer of disease, should it astonish those who know tho cravings of appetite and the force of habit, thnt tins terrible practice, In the language of the re Kolutiun, sends thousands daily prematurely to the grave, and tills the land with drunkenness and crime? Look Into iilmost. any of the approver! wotks on the Practice of Medicine, and you will llnd that alcoholic drinks arc named as one of the fauces of almost every diseuse, and yet In the recent works these same deleterious agents tire lauded as remedies above all others. Somu recommend them only In convalescence; others in exhausted condi tions before convalescence has begun, and yet others from the beginning to the end of the malady. Willi them they treat the cold stage, the hot stage, the stage of excitement, the period of depression, delirium, coma, Klei piessness, and every other condition that may arise. Now, they nre given to arouse the energies, then to allay ex ollenicnt, here as u supporter of combustion, there as food for the nerves; one day to build np the system by proi -oting nerve-roree. tho next to fiull it down by Increasing the waste of tissues, or, n fashionable language, destructive metnuiorphosi. Willi their worshippers, they fullil every indication, they combat every symptom, nud, though tliev fail to conquer, they nre sllll on hand to lie In at, the death. Among nil our acquaintance wo know of no physician who does not prescribe and recommend them more or less. The time was, und many of vou can remember It, when they were recommended by teachers in medicine only in weak states of the body, and to be used with extreme caution ; now, when the brain Is overpowered by sunstroke, when the man falls prostrate with upo'plexv, In the lirst us in the last days of Illness in spotted, tvphus, typhoid, or yclloWfever, In every variety of diiirrha-a and dysentery, in rheumatism, in pleurisy, in pneumonia, in the shock by injury from violence, in mnnia-a-potu and delirium tre mens, iu the sleeplessness brought on by the use of alcohol, in the nervous diseases of females during gestation and after delivery, and dally during the nursing period, wine or brandy, gin or whisky, or malt liquors, or one or more of the various tinctures or bitters, strong with alcohol, is prescribed and urged with nn earnestness which testifies to the faith reposed in them by the physician, and which allays the repugnance of the patients to the use of an agent which they had seen llllingthe land with drunkenness and crime, lines a child suiter from croup, or scarlet fever, or diphtheria tne building-up process must not bo neglected disregard the in llanmiation, keep up the strength. It is a blood poison, says authority, and while vou send the Iodides, the bromides or calorides through the body to wrestle with the poison, give brandy -toddv. whisky-punch, wine and beef-tea to keep up the 'strength, ami as the poor child, with a plug in its wind-pipe w Inch prevents access of uir to the lungs, uruggics f.r br nth. pour down the brandy, wine, or whissy. For what? The answer comes not, lor reason and experience have none to give, lint a short time since a friend of ours, n gen tleman of Philadelphia, told us that a son or his of ten years of age, iitii tided by t o of the first physi clnns of Mint ciiiljilitened city, In a ease of diptherla, had so much brandy urged upon him, when the membrane had invaded tho windpipe, that during the last few Ik tivs of Ids life as he lay on his bed ho would throw up his arms and cry, "Father, hold me, lam swimming, 1 will Mil out, of bed." Ho was drunk from briiudy. when all that he needed was the removal of the plug from his windpipe. Should any doubt lliis Ktati liieut, we refer tliem to a ease pub lished in the A mrricuii Journal clhr Mr.lictd .Scieius'H at page SU of tho number for January, lsoj, by a plivsiciiui of honored name, himself the author ol a treatise on the "Diseases of Chil dren.'' The inttent, a child or ten years, was well till the evening of the 9th of April. Next morning complained of sore throat and Ions of appetite, in the afternoon the doctor saw him villi symptoms of scarlet fever or diptheria, as yet so Illy defined as to leave doubt. And now less than twenty-lour hours fiom h .-lipb, and when u febtile condition was just beginning to manifest itself, conies the physician with salts in one hand mid brandy in the other ten grains of sulphite of magnesia und milk-punch every two hours. Next morning all the symptoms were ii7gravated the ln flumtmition of throat and skin intense; but still the salts in one hand and milk-punch and beef-tea, a vviueglassful of each of the latter ultimately every two hours, in the other. And fo on, day after day, till the dry und Inflamed throat would not per mit a drop of those life-preservers to pass. l!ui no thing daunted, the beef-tea. brandy, and sulphite of magnesia are forced up the rectum (thank Heaven for the doctor's change of liases; ; the ice which sur rounds the throat, now that the Ucry liquid is kept aw ay, soon cools it, relieves the intlaiumatiou, and the throat again becomes the channel to the sfo ''or eleven days this terrible treatment went men. . . nr lirandvimd beef-tea every two fti Uiiik mincit, . .. . "-"Hun from which hours and nidi resuM o. in tu.u.... the little sufferer barely escaped Willi life, 1 mention this casu as the type of the pi'OSOnt ! popular stimulant treatment, und because the publication of It will cause a similar treatment to le applied to thousands of little stiilerers. The cane will bo rend at home and abroad, ami the nnme of the eminent physician and author will be a Bitftlelent guarantee t,to those who are convinced by high authorities of the correctness of a practice) that brandy was useful in this case; anil, as a consequence, every child lhat. falls In their way tick with scarlet fever or diptheria must be dofced with brandy. Allow us to stata another case, to show how this Indiscriminate use und recom mendation of alcohol is propagated and leads to results so deplorable that. Proiessor Uross was com pelled to cry aloud iu denunciation of It. At page ;ilO of the October number of the Sfmlieal ii Suroical Jlrjiirtcr for lSt!S, Doctor Dale, of Centre county, reports one ease of vomiting during preg nancy in which, aftr trying a lew of the usual remedies, he resorted t good rye whisky, one tea spoonful with three drops tincture .of aconite three tunes auuv, unu says, li, acton iiko u cicirm, itie whisky being the lirst thing to give tone to the stomach.'' lie gave whisky and aconite for two weeks, but thera is not a word of praise for the aconite. The woman and her friends and tho medi cul prolcssion, us far as the communication can reach, are to regard the whisky as the remedial agmt. Wo have no hesitancy la saying that thou sands of pregnant women will be induced and urged by the publication of this slnglo case to try alcoholic drinks for the relief of an aiteetion which has rarely resisted mild and harmless remedies Id the handsof ejipericnecil physicians. This glowing report, too, Is uased on a single case, and in which the relief might properly have been attributed to the effect of the aconite on the nerves of the stomach. One more case. Two weeks since a gentleman pave s the following history : Last December his daughter, of ubout twenty-one years, was taken with pain iu the side, and as lie hud loslthree daugh ters within a few years of consumption, he, after the FPcond day's Illness, left his hunie. tight miles from Philadelphia, and moved to the city and placed Iter under the care of a physician of some eminence. He dhignosed pneumonia, nnl at once put her on tho use of beer, ale, and whisky. She died In the eaily pa.'t of Mav, sflcr great sulleiing and in despiie of twenty-four quin ts of the best old rye whisky and an ubuudanco of beer and ule. As the sister who died one year before onlv took ten gallons of wine during her ill ness, it was hoped that a heavier stimulation by stronger lhpwrir might prove more successful, hence the substitution of whisky. We mention these eases because they show the present, terrible practice of stimulation, and not to throw discredit on those who conscientiously treated them. 1 his disposition In physicians to prescribe alcoholic Stimulants iu every variety of disease received severe rebuke from Dr. ISuinuel Wilkes in a lecture to his la'ge class of students de livered in a London hospital two years since. We vefret that wo can present only brief extracts. He said: "1 should be sorry to say tlmt the doctor panders to the pu'oKe tat", hince he Is too often iu accoro wiih it, il.it this agree, ueni be! veer, doctor und put lent resolves Itself into this. An extra stimulant is ,i scribed. It matters Utile what it the nature e I lie -iiscase, Riuec the reasons lor the treatment are ucii.lica 'iu to u!l complaints, ami are loiimled r u this ! loiplo proposition: All per nil:s who are ill are w-.ik. They have, lost strength ; thev rienile it to be icstored. Alcohol Is a supitort-'r einl tonic; ilieicloii! Hlcohol is u remedy for all dls- inses. Tins is no paro lv, tor l constantly invar m: n i til lueiifcavtiicy ii .e brandy lo u'l their patients, lor H i v uhvavs fiiicl t hem fee-. Moreover, in Is a niedi- iine id which the patients approve, assuming as thev do lis s liuioitlng und strengthening porter. Vou ei nnol, L.eiefi to, do belter, IT you have no com ptibet.oii.s m e,n'i-i .' iiiir i into a wrre iiv.Ct, thtiti to say to di yi.ur patients, alter feeling their p,ilM, Uiut'thcy ui'u very low; that you are suro mat nicy do not lake einniirn, unit oritur iiieiu seve ral uliisses of wine iliillv. Should they be ex ei-e.diiigly ill with some desperate orgauic complaint, you must turn your remarks to tiie friends, and pcuk of tlm necessity vf Mprtliij tit? patirut by giving lilm us much brandy as can be poured down his throat. Jfy this method viu uie sure to irive satlslactiou, for Miunld the putn nt die without sucit treatment, you n.iiy l i! bi.tnn d lor ieitiig him slip through your liiivers, w iiil.it If he dm with it, you have done your i.est un iiii-ir pint. ,ii). i im would bo a comioriai:e . urn! nn miive moon oi practice." In addition to the regular prescriptions by medl- cti' li. fi ci it.cotiei, ii.e tihe by llie;- advice ol Hue tores, Plantation Hitters, 8cheldfim Rohnapps, Sto machic, Cordials, etc., all of which are strongly alcoholic, Is slmost universal. They produce the exhilarating riftetsof moderate Intoxication and en gender an appetite for rum. In all the laud wo seem to have but one sanitary Institution In which alcoholic drinks are regarded as always a cause, and never a remedy for disease. They are used lavishly In nearly all our hospitals, Jails, almshouses, and nvlnms, ns Is shown by the reports from those Insti tutions. There was purchased for use lu the Phila delphia Almshouse in 186N WIiip, ffl,v; gallons, at a cost of. f mss r.T WhNky, 1M4 v gallons, at a cost of M t l Tfi Porter, 141 burrols-4"00 gallons, at a coat of. iflifoi) e79S'J-42 Making a cost of seven thousand nine hundred ami eighty-nine dollars and forty-two cents, exclusive of the cost for alcohol. In IbCi there was purchned of Whisky, AM gnllons, nt a cost of t2fiTiVT8 Wine, "7f gallons, at a cost of -2M:!-30 Porter, K)t ttarrels - 3392 gallons, at a cost of . .1222-00 iS4IH Making a total of six thousand four hundred and eleven dollars and eight cents, exclusive of the cost, or alcohol, which always goes Into tho drug account. In the Pennsylvania Hospital Kepoit for the year aiding 4th mo., Until, lsi;7, I llnd the whole amount for medicines was Jnii4-77. which doubtless Includes alcohol and chemicals, while the Wine cost !MV2! Spirits cost mi-o.2 Porter and mineral wuter i:it5-0 .'424fl Making two thounini four hundred and twenty-four dollais and ninety-one cents for Mimulants alone, exclusive or the alcohol, which would swell tho amount greatly ami reduce Ihe ilrug bill In pro portion. in the report of the State Lunatic Hospital for lsCti, I lind: Wine, !).'! gnllons, cost f 124-75 line old rye whisky, cost. I2."si)i) Porter, !)S) dozen- list) bottles, coat 1MSS) 1 404 61 Altogether four hundred and four dollars and sixty-four cents, while ilru '(, chemicals, and medi lines cost only two hundred and thirty-four dollars and seventeen cents. And this is the report of the ilolnps of an institution under the control of one of the most Immune and enlightened physicians of the Ktate, one, too, who almost en tirely repudiates the necessity of stimulants, except In a single form of Insanity, 'in all Pennsylvania, If we could have the reports from every almshouse, Jail, insane asylum, and hospital, we would read the same story, that brandy, whisky, wine, and porter were ami, ng the lauding medicines, and cost more than oil other remedies together. We know of but one fing:e almshouse In which not ono drop is used. Of It, we slmli speak hereafter, und shall usk you to take note of It. The use of alcoholic liquors by physicians seems to be founded on the popular doctrine und belief that they nourish the body by supplying plastic material or heat material, or else indirectly support the system by diminishing metamorphosis or atomic 'change; hence this class of remedies is spoken of us sup porters of vita) heat, food for the nerves, generators of force, etc. The mind is filled with a vague idea that strength and increased health are the results of their use by persons In health, thus warding oil' dis ease; and that in the sick, in whom, they sav, the vital force Is always depressed, they aid iu sustain ing it. This Is a popular doctrine, and were it not that it has led to fatal results, it would be amusing to witness the satislied nir of those who so tri umphantly prate about, giving brand v and whisky as food for the nerves, to build up tin- system, to pre vent metamorphosis, elc. We utterly leptnlhite this doctrine. We deny that alcohol Increases vital force, is food for the nerves, or Is Indispensable in sickness or in health. Dr. T. Kennard, of St. Louis, in an article In the Mnih-al Arehlrcn, on alcohol, says: "Whatever may be the exact nature ol the deleterious a;ent in al cohol acting upon the human organism, we know that it ntlects different individuals lu very dlil'erent degrees, Imt aUraji i! Oreamiinti thi nerrmn .o.soh. Some persons are in jureo by' It in even the smallest, quantity, some ore rapidly poisoned by its uhus", while otlieis are very slow to experience its baneful effects. It creeps upon them slowly and unconsciously, and its temporary soothing ntid ex hilarating eilects delude its victims with the belief that it is the deficiency and not thu excess ol amount taken, which gives rise to ull the miserable symp toms of chronic alcoholism." Professor N. S. Davis, who hus with much propriety been called the Father of the American Medical Association, in an "Fssav on tho Kitctttsof Alcohol,'- writes: "It is probable that a very largo majority of the people, even at the present time, regard alcoholic, drinks, when taken with moderation, as tonic, nourishing, wanmmr.und life-sustaining, the conservators of strength In manhood und tho milk or age. These popular notions nre strengthened on the one hand by the weet exhilarating eilects of alcohol on the liervflns system, and on the other by certain theo retical dogmas promulgated by I.iebig, Johnston, Hammond, and others, who have boldly proclaimed alcohol to be respiratory or accessory lood. This class of chemieo-physlologists simply point to tho fact that alcohol In Its chemical relations belougs to the class of hydrocarbons: and that those substances out of the living body are capable of undergoing -"liustlon. bv unitlmr with oxvoren: and ihp e.WA.. fn ..nilfllluliin flint mhan BtraiKliWny j...H - ;" -Tnler into t taken H1I9 the Bvsteii), they" fir.tunu., l!)Hr ,ltoi!,i,; combination with oxvgen, ami thus become respira tory food. And yet we Hearch lu all their writings, ill Tain, lor tuo urst item oi prooi mat their mere theoretical deductions nre correct. A mote recent modification of the theories emanating from this school of writers makes alcohol not respiratory but accessory food. It having Wmi clearly proved by the exrfcrltnenfs of Iloker and others, that the presence of alcohol In the system lessened the atomic changes and secretions In such away as to diminish the sum total or eliminations in a given time, it was nt once assumed that, the diminution of utomic changes lu the tissues of the body was equivalent to just so much nutrition or ad dition of new matter through digestion or assimila tion ; hence the alcohol was declared to be accessory or Indirect food, a fallacy which will be exposed hereafter.'' lie continues: "We have thus stated fairly tho theoretical doctrines of this class of men, because their names are continually quoted us authority throughout all departments of our litera ture. Let us now see how their theoreticul assump tions and popular notions are sustained by a wide range of experiments and carefully observed .facts. "First. Numerous chemical analyses of the blood and different tissues, made by different experiment ers, show that, when ulcohollc drinks are taken, the alcohol enters the blood and permeates with It every part of the body. This position is acknowledged to bo correct by all classes of observers. "Second. An equally reliable series of experiments have shown that, alcohol undergoes no chemical chnnge in the system, but is eliminated through the excretory organs, more especially the lungs and kidneys, within a few hours "after being taken. This position, though long disputed, was fully established by the results of the well-devised and carefully exe cuted experiments of Lallemand, Periin. nud Duroy. "Third. While in tho blood und circulating In tiie system, the alcohol diminishes tho sensibility of the brain und nervous system lu the same maimer as other anirsthetics, and also retards the uetive chunges iu nil the tissues; and consequently diminishes the sum total of cliniinulions or excretions iu a given period of tune. The numerous and patient experimental investigations ol Prout, S.indras, and liouchardat, linker, Ham mond, and others have removed all doubts lu regard to the truth of this proposition. "Fourth, liy diminishing the utomic changes in the tissues of the body und the sensibility of the nervous system, the ulcohol, by its presence, ulso diminishes tiie temperature, the strength, and the power of en durance. Thut its presence in tne system reduces the temperature was lirst fully established by the rcsulls of a series of experiments performed by my Hell iu if W), some of which I repealed iu 1 ii)7. These experiment! consisted in testing the actual tern peraturo of the body every half hour, with u delicately gruduuted thermometer, for three hours alter a moderate drink of alco holic liquor. The tests were applied to both wluo and whisky. These results fire confirmed by the observations of Magnus und others iu Europe. That tho presence of ulcoliol directly diminishes liu strength und power of endurance is proved, not only by the foregoing scientific, investigation, but. also bv a large number of can fully observed recta In rela tion to Hie results of labor in civil and military life, and bv the etailstics of sickness and mortality." Proiessor Davis ul:-:o presents niiiiuroiis fai ls, and Ihe uutlioiity of gieat names, mining whom may in; found Dr. liciijuuiin Hush, Dr. Frank H. Hamilton, and others us eminent, to prove th- triilu of Ins poidiioi', in conclusion lie says: "It were easy to till a volume with laetsund MaiiMic showing that in every relation ol Jile the use ol alcoholic drinks (Iiimni. lies man's capacity t eiidur.) both menial and physical labor; incn-u-es his predisposi tion to disease, and shortens the average duration of life. And although we ha-, e bad our attention di rected to this Hobj'cc; for loily years, wo have not found, either in the ucui.lsol medicine or of general literature, a single statUtical item calculated to prove the contrary. We have seen an abundaucu of oi-i,iii,im expressed, but opinions arc not facti. It is v i ry common to hear that somu sick or injured person has been kept up, or kept alive, on brandy, or whlshy, or wine, liutdo those who testify have any reliable means of knowing whether the sick person was lictuuMv kept nlive bv the potion, or Win ther lie lived ill spile of it ? J he inilutnt Dr. Todd testified strongly to the sustaining and beneiiclul influence of alcoholic li inks in f he low forms of fever, yet statistics show Unit in the London Fever Hospitals, with which he was connected, the ratio of mortality Increased Pi jmh with the increased use of alcoholic drinks. The able corps of. medical attendants at the Bellevno and Emigrant Hospitals of New York also boro decided testimony to the utility of those liquors In the treatment of the same forms of fever, and used them largely. But the mortality was one in every live or six cases treated. The same fevers placed in tents with plenty of fresh air and nourishment without a drop of alco holic drinks In their treatment gave a mortality of only ono in seventeen. Those who Imagine that to diminish the waste of tissues by diminishing the Atomic changes Is equiva lent to the actual assimilation nud add It on of new atoms, forgot that all tho phenomena of life In the phytdcal organism are the direct result of such atomic changes: and whatever diminishes these actually diminishes phvsleal lire and to stop them Is to stop life." isueh ate the opinions of Pro fessor N. K. Davis, one of the most emi nent of American medical men, and against whom lies no charge of radicalism in tempe rance. Against the use of alcohol as accessory food, by Its power of dtmlshing or retarding niet.amor;Wio bis or atomic change In the system, allow us also to quote from "Chambers' Renewal of Life." On page Ul li says: "There cannot be too active a meta morphosis of tissue the most nctivo metamorphosis of the body possible, the highest possible develop ment of life, Is health; tho complete cessation of metamorphosis, 0i; the partial cessation or arrest is (ti.ttasr." If, then, as these authors have proved, alcohol always, ami In whatever dose used, permeates the system unchanged and arrests In degree the natural atomic changes, on which health depends, why shall we not believe with those shout we have already quoted that it is always a producer of disease and never valuable as a remedy; and witli Doctor Day, the distinguished physician of the Inebriate Asylum nt lllnghamton, N. Y., nud with Dr. Joseph Parrlsh, the enlightened and i hilanlhroplo plnslcian of the Sanitarium nt Mediu, Po., "lhat even the appetite for alcohol Is the result of a disease produced by Its use, ' and with Dr. Kennard, of St. Louts, "that it always acts by deranging the nervous system." Having thus disposed of the Urst part of the reso lution, we come now to consider tho latter clause, In which It Is asserted that, a practice bused on com mon sense and a sound clinical experience and ob servation must take Its place, and thus tiring heal ing mid blessings on Its wings to the nations of tho earth. There are hosts of physicians in this country, and many In this society, that have unbounded faith In the present stimulant treatment, and exhibit the utmost scorn towards those who nre Inclined to believe that alcohol is not wwntial to the treatment of disease. It Is our duty then to ex amine this part of the resolution, to Bee whether a modiiied regenerated practice a practice that dispenses with Ihe use of alcoholic stimulants would not only be safe but be so advantageous as to "bring healing and blessings on its wings to mankind," for we aro not disposed to allow the au thor of this declaration to escape one lota of the re sponsibility which he has invoked. The eminent Professor Iienjamln Rush was one of the Urst in this country of tho teachers In niedlclno to speak against the use of alcoholic stimulants, and Proiessor (. hupnian, one of the brightest, ornaments of our profession, near the close or lire and after a long medical experience, said: "It Is tho sacred duty of every one exercising the profession of medi cine, to unite with the moralist, tho divine, and the economist in discouraging the consumption of those baneful articles, and as the Urst step in the reforma tion tnilincoiinti,nancc the hanrvl iwtion a their re,nc iliil efficacy.'' Professor Seward, of Washington City, says: "While we are convinced that there is no case in which ardent spirits uro indispensable, and for which there is not an adequate substitute, we aro equally assured that as long us there is an exception allowed, and men ure permitted to use It as n medi cine, so long we shall have Invalids and drunkards among us," The eminent Dr. Muzzey, of Cincinnati, declared: "To a place among preventives of disease spirituous drinks can present but the most feeble claims. The best protection against disease Is de rived from a natural, healthy, unfluctuating state of vital action sustained by plain articles of nutri ment tininiluenced by auy innutritions drinking of stimuli which operate on the whole nervous power. There Is the most appalling evidence of tho perni cious influence of intoxicating liquors in preparing the constitution for no attack of cholera. Tipplers, exposed to the exciting causes ol Inflammatory, epidemic, and contagious diseases, are liable to at tack, and die in great numbers. Witness the results in epidemic pleurisies, pneumonia, the severe forms of influenza, pestilential fevers, und cholera.'' Thus spoke this great medical practitioner, and yet so universal has the belief In tho preventive and reinediul powers of alcohol become; so universally is it prescribed, thut ur. John Hell, one of the oldest noil most learned physicians of Philadelphia, during the hist visitation of cholera to this country, at a meeting of the College of Physicians, felt culled upon to denounce their use In that disease as mur derous. He said Cholera results from un atmospheric poison. The atciilmtie ptartiee- is miitilermif. Too much attention has been paid to the proxtratitm, and this has Induced a belief that stimulants are necessary in the treatment. The proportion of deaths from this practice is perhaps nine out of ten. The idea that alcohol is a preventive of disease is a most popular one, and one which," he feared, "was encouraged bv the pro fession. It was a most fallacious, and, he might add, pernicious doctrine thut the use of alcoholic drinks was a preventive of disease. It was argued some years ago that a fever might be kept oil' by their use, but the fallacy of that argument Uud been conclusively shown." L4!'. EC" was TC'.Iowcil ly Dr. Neblnger, so well and favorably known to us all as a conscientious uud learned physician and a prominent member of this society. He said: "1 deeply regret that the previ ous speaker has objected to the publication of his remaiks (in tiie public papers) iu reference to the pirnlclous eitects of tho use of alcoholic drinks as preventives of cholera, und his well-uttered denunciations of tho prac-J the, for tney are noi ouiy wen wormy or publication, but deserve to be published in letters of gold, that tliev might attract and be read by every eye. The terrlilcally bad effects of the recommenda tion by the faculty of Philadelphia and other places, lu 18U2 and 184U,of the use of ulcohollc beverages as preventive of cholera, is well known. Dr. liell had wlscls raised his voice against a practice which, while it was well calculated to contaminate the morals, so distempered the body as to produce a predisposition to an attack of the malady it was Im properly used to prevent." To these bold, mauiy utterances of those scientific physicians, made iu the presence of their fellows, there was no dissenting voice, and still tho murderous practice goes ou. We have already shown that fevers ure cured better without them than with them. If, then, in tha fearful prostration of fevers und cholera they aro not needed, where shall we uso them? The eminent surgeon of Nottingham, Mr. Iliggln bottom, writes: "11 all ltitoxlcatlug drinks were banished from the earth it would be a real blessing, und in a few weeks they would not be missed even us a medicine. For the first twenty years I igno rant ly gave alcohol m some diseases, as was ciiBtomary, yet as early us tho year ism, I discontinued it in typhus, typhoid, and other fevera with the most raurked beucucia! results. For thirty years I have not prescribed alcohol as u medicine. I have discovered a great truth and mndo a great dis coverythat ulcohol In every form niuy be dis pensed with in medical and surgical piuctice and in not required in a liwjlc (Unorder or distune. My prac tice hus been open to 'hourly Inspection and observa tion for thirty years or more, in the centre of a large and populous town, surrounded by more than forty surgeons and physicians, most of tlium Intelligent and discerning men. Surely some one of them would have inlornicd me of my iusiullclcncy or mal practice, nud 1 been in error. During my long practice I have not known or , Been a single disease cured by alcohol; I on the contrary, it is the most fertile producer of disease. It is, destitute or uny medicinal principle Implanted by the Creator In genuine medicines;" und, quoting lroni a medical wiitcr, he says: "The diseases occasioned l ulcohol have been by far more destructive than uny plague that ever raged In Christendom, more malignant tluiu unv other epidemic pestilence thut ever desolated our sintering race; whether In the shape of the l-ontaglous and burning smallpox, the cholera of the Fust, or the yellow fever of the West diseases by far morn loathsome, infectious, and destructive than ull of them put t'gi ther, with all their dreadful ui'rav of sulleriiig and death, muted nt one glutitiy assem blage ol hovilflc and appalling misery." It. I.. M. Bennett says: "I for one believe that there is no curable disease but may be treated uud Hired bi tter w ithout uh ohol Ihun with it." Dr. It. L. Barclay, of Hione'orldge.writei : " have bimir lied them from my practice since ls.4". During tln te twenty-one years 1 have not made lewer than one hundred and eighty thousand visits, uud I uui free to s ty that the recoveries huve been more nu iniious und more rapid thuu they were during tho live yi at s 1 folio ve, the uual practice, and gave biai.dy, wine, and beer. Of these numerous pa tients, many were luboilng under the most aggra vated forms of typhus und other mullgnant fevers, smallpox, i-holeru, inaiita-ii-polu, largo exhausting aii.-;cuses, uud mauy oilier diseases in which alco holic stimulants tiro usually administered and thougt't to be ( siential. I have attended, likewise, tho-pulieuts of t wo large hospitals for many years one iu to n, the other in the country; tho paupers of a populous parish for sixteen years; the mem bers of nine beuellt clubs for many years, some of them numbering three hundred members -and in all these diiferenl cases and under all those different circumstances I have not once found It necessary to : prescribe either spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors." ! Suit Dr. Henry Mudgo: "Having published short notices of over forty forms of disease, Including ac couchement by the hundred, hemorrhages, shock, typhus fever, consumption, purulent, discharges, lurge burns, and indigestions, cured without ulco- hnllcs, I have some right to claim eqnal expllcltness from those who prescribe them." Dr. W. W. Townsend, of the Chester County Alms house, In a letter to the chairman of this committee, says: "There has not ben a pint of alcoholic, liquors In the form of brandy, wine, whisky, beer, or ale nscd In thin house as an internal remedy for twenty mouths; and very little slnco I have had charge or it, and the little that was used, I am certain did harm. My patients Bot well sooner and better when none was used. I nave treated msnla-a-potu, typhoid fever, dysentery, pneumonia, and surgical cases, and 1 appeal to the record for the evidence of the success of my prac tice. There have been fewer deaths than in any peilod of the same length of time for twenty years 4 have examined the records no further and I inn so well satislied of the correctness of the practice, that I shall never resort to thoso kinds of stimulants In the treatment of any kind of disease that may come under my care." Dr. T. W. (Jairdner, In a late number of the Glanpow Medical Journal, In an able article on Alco holic Stimulation, says: "It Is an error to conceive of alcoholic stimulation as a proper substitute in febrile diseases for ordinary food. Kven beef-tea (so much favored by Dr. Todd In conjunction with alcohol) is of very Inferior nutritive value to milk, and of secondary importance. To give brandy and beef-ten every hour or hair hour Tor days and nights together, even waking up the patient (us is recom mended by Dr. Todd) in order to give hlni his food and stimulants, Is the surest of ull ways to destroy what remains of natural appetite. It is an error to suppose that patients alleoted with very severe svinptoniB of acute disease nre capable of tolerating Indefinitely greater mounts of alcoliollo liquors than can be given in health. it is ulraost certain from facts already observed that in young persons the mortality of fevers is greatly Increased by the continuous administration of alcoholic stimulants; and. It may lie confidently anticipated, as a result of Improved consideration given to the subject, that the profuse and continuous administration of alcoholic stimulants, with a view to alimentation in acute disease, will ere long be abandoned as Inconsistent with nn enlightened phy siology and a sound practice. A subordiuate.tliough very important consideration, bearing on this profuse nud continuous stimulation, Is that such liberal doses or wine and spirits given habitually under medical ad'icc tend to give a wrong bias to nuiilio opinion, and (even apart from the grave moral con sequences arising from the abuses or ulcohollc liquors) to involve the whole medical practice of the country in a system of unnecessary and, therefore, wasteful expenditure. It Is ns nearly as possible a demon strated fact, that much of what is spent iu wines and spirits for the sick In hospitals mud probably also in private practice) is unnecessarily, If not In juriously spent. Typhus fever, as it occurs in (Glas gow, almost always among the poor, and often among the most Ill-nourished, debilitated, and dissi pated classes, Is the very type of a dis ease which would appear to require the highest doses, an-: the most fre quent and liberal ailminlsl ration of alcoholic stimu lants. Yet it lias been clearly shown that tvphuti fever In Clasgow may bo so treated us to havo a diminished mortality with the aid simply of milk diet and careful nursing." In continuation of the above, allow mo to quote again from the lecture of Dr. Wilkes. "To my mind, the most Important question iu- therapeutics is the vnluo of alcohol in disease. You aro as thoroughly to consider the propriety of It, as you would uny drug in the phurniacopoia. You have witnessed that fevers will do well without, them. Young per sons witli typhus and typhoid do far beter, I believe, without them. That they make good recoveries on simple milk diet is a fact which my hospital cases prove, and which no argument can gainsay. It Is also a fact, that in bronchitis 1 have often seen improvement after stimulants huve been omitted; and us regards heart disease, the amount of mischief done bv stimu lation is immense." Such are the testimonies of some of the first medical men in Europe. It is but a few years ago, that, almost the only treatment for niania-a-potu, delirura tremens, nud all the tortures of chronic alcoholism, was more rum; now scarcely any really enlightened physician thinks it necessary. Dr. Day, Physlclun and 'super intendent of tho Inebriate Asylum of New York State, does not use It in the treatment of those dis eases. Dr. John Curwcn, Physician of the Pennsyl vania State Asylum for the Insane at liarrisburg, informed a member of this committee, that he has found it necessary only in a single form of tierce In sanity, and then not as a means of cure, but for procuring quiet, by means, wo suppose, of the deep intoxication which it produces. But again wo are met by the nlmost ntriversal de mand for whisky us a cure and preventive of con sumption. There is scarcely a single person In tho whole country, threatened with or sallering from that disease, who is not dosed dally with either brandy or whisky, in Inrgo doses, by advice of tho physician, who conscientiously regards thera us tho great remedies to increase vital rorce, and thus avert the disposition to tubercle. We have for several years hud occasion to deplore this system or treat ment, and from most careful observations made iu a large region of country, where the history of every case of phthisis which occurred could be ascertained from week to week, we have failed to discover the least benelit derived from the use of alcohol, either as a preventive or remedy In that affection. In lbiO the Rhode Island Medical Society offered a prize of two hundred dollars for the best essay on "Tho effect of tho use of alcoholic liquors in tubercular disease or in consti tutions predisposed to that disease, to be shown as far as possible by statistics." The prize was awarded 10 -J?!'" .Ut'", M, l., of New YorK, Seldom. Utvve ob servations been niftvo thoroughly made; mora carci fully conducted through a long period of time, and embracing every condition ami circumstance which could conduct to reliable conclusions; and what are the results? First. That the opinion prevalent as to the use of alcoholic liquors having a marked eil'ect ia prevent ing consumption is without any solid foundation. Second. Their use, on the contrary, appears rather to predispose to tubercular deposition. Third. Where tubercle already exists, alcohol has no obvious e licet in modifying its usual course. Fourth. Neither does it mitigate in any consider able degree the morbid effects of tubercle upon the system at large. Such are the conclusions of an extended investi gation of the subject by the man to whom the Medl cul Society of Rhode Island joyfully awarded-the meed of merit; and wo are hnppy to oppose it to the alcoholic practice of Anstio, Bennett, Todd. Cham bers, and others, who have placed alcohol at the head of the list of remedial agents. Thev have sung pi ulaes to the healing virtues of alcohol. Their songs nave been neurit in every rainuy, ami now through out the length and breadth of the laud, in palace and in hovel, the word has passed that the young child, t4e delicate school girl, the slender apprentice, the sludlous youth, the nursing mother, the anxious merchant., the girls in the store, the tailor on the bench, all who take exercise, and those who take none, enn have immunity from con sumption only by the dally uso of whisky. To op pose this popular practice is to call down on our heads the anathemas or those who are ever ready to stifle free discussion. We have conscientiously and prayerfully desired to make a just report on the resolution, and nre constrained in view of the facts bearing on the subject, to declare that there exists a terrible practice of stimulation which "sends its vic tims dally, by thousands, prematurely to the grave, and fills the land with drunkenness and crime;" thut a moditlcd, regenerated practice, based on com mon sense and a sound clinical observation, should take its place to bring healing and blessings on Its wings to the nations of the earth. All of which is respectfully submitted. HtltAM COH.0S, W. W. TOWNSKND, Committee. FOR SALE. "1 AILROAD FORECLOSURE SALE. 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OHO WELL A CO., Agents at Nrtola jj . (G? NOTICK FOR NEW YORK, VIA l?Jrt7 IKLAWARR AND RARITAN CANAU &Zmk EXPRESS STEAMBOAT COMPANY. iUolJUKAPKST AND QUICKEST water oommunica tion between Pbiludelphiu and New York. Steamers leave daify from first whnrf below Market Street. Philadelphia, ,and foot .of Wall street New YoA. (.mids forwarded by nil the lints running out of New York, North, East, and West, free of commission Freight received Bnd forwarded on accommsdatimr t8- No. titfSZti NEW EXPRESS LINE TO Alexandria, Georgetown, and Washington, Di mm m j ujnnioB unu umuvan uanui, WltU connections at Alexandria from the most direoi route fop y u.i.u.b, miihvi, uuvHiiiiv, ua&uvuie, uauea, ana tna Southwest. Bteumors leave regularly every Saturday at noon from the first wharf above Market street. Freight received daily. , WILLIAM P. OLYDR A CO., Tivnw . mvj in0.14 North "1 South wharves. ri nHtnrenUiR' ffte?t5,i Uaorgotown : M. ELDRIDGK a CO., Agents at Alexandria. 61 J . 1TT? Is. NOTICE. FOR NEW YORK, VIA !" Delaware and Raritnn Canal, BWIFT8URK urflsfo TRANSPORTATION COM PAN Y. DKaS PA1CU AND SWIFTBURK LINE. """x- vaa The Husineas of these lines will be resumed on and after the 8th of Marefi. For freight, which will be taken on accommodating terms, apply to W. M. BA1RD ft CO., , 8 2? No. liU South Wharves. PROPER I E8 AND PROVISIONS. gHOTWELL SWEET O I DEB. Our usual supply ol this CELEBRATED CIDER just received. ALBERT C. ROBERTS, Dealer In Fine Groceries, U 71 corner ELEVENTH an VINE Streets. J-jriOIIAEL. MEAOHEK A CO. THO. 323 Bontu SIXTEENTH street, Wholesale and Retail Dealers In PROVISIONS, OYSTERS, AND BAND CLAK?8, FOR FAMILY TJBl TERRAPINS ll PER DOZEN. M PERSONAL. p A U T I O N! J RFMOVAL. DONNKI.LY'H OLU ESTABLISH FID P11(I;NIX MONKY LOAN OFFICII rmovcd from No. H2H SOUTH Street, corner of RON A LD. SON, to his new and large building No. UB SOU1H Street, ubovo Broiid. F.ntrjnce to priv.iie eltlce at door of DwolliDgi also on DOYLK Street, in the rear, whers money will be loaned as usual on Diamonds, Watchesv Jewelry. Silverware, Ary Goods, Clothing, Ifeils, ISomiinir, t'aipetM, i'uininiro, Pictures, raimincs, ..una, rim". Musical Instruments, and goods of every description and vulue. Secure aaiea for the keening of valuables; ala 10 so lm No. 1-U3 SOUTH Streeti. Yj in E WORK. GALVANIZED and Painted WIRE GUARDS, store fronts and windows, for factory ana wareliouHv wifidowB, for churches and cellar windows. . IRON and WIRE RAILINGS, for balconies, offlcea cemetery and garden fences. Liberal allowance made to Contractors, Builder and Carpenters. All orders IMed wltn promptnesi and work guaranteed. ROBEKT WOOD & CO., TSstuthCnl No. 1136 IDGE Avwioe PUlla. yOTICE-INTEKNAL REVENUE". The undersigned will sell at pnbllo sale, on THl'RS. DAY. November 11. l-ti.at 11 o'clock A.M., at No. 8.17 Cl' KMAN Street, tho following distillery apparatus and) ai'i'urleimnces, vi.. : Una Meaiii engine and Boilers, Mush Tabs, Copper pumps, Plutloim fciculOH, etc. 'i he said urtioles are seized and distrained npon for nan. pstmeut ul lanes, elc., due U. b- Internul Ituvcnue. JAM I'.'S N. KKKNS, 11 2 8t Vcputy Collector aim District. ablr7 ,MAMM ""SIKH? :TOHT.
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