The Poison Problem; Or, the Cause And Cure of Intemperance: Or, the Cause ...
The Poison Problem; Or, the Cause And Cure of Intemperance: Or, the Cause ...
Felix Leopold Oswald
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" Of two hundred and four cases of cholera in Park Hospital, New York," says Dr. Sewell, ** only six recovered, and they were temperate persons." The founder of the London Temperance Hospital proves that the mortality of his institution is four and a half per cent lower than in any other hos- Digitized by LjOOQ IC ALOOHOUO DRUGS. 89 pital treating the same variety of cases. Professor Bronson, of Montreal, states that, according to his ex- perience, " the habitual use of ardent spirits, in the s...mallest quantity, seldom fails to invite cholera and render it incurable." "The use of alcoholic drinks," says Dr. E. E. Ad- ams, " 1 have found to be a great disposing cause of malignant disorders. So strong is my opinion on this point that, were I one of the authorities and had the power, I would placard every spirit-shop in town with these words : ^ Cholera sold here ! ' " In the yellow-fever hospitals of our Gulf-States an enormous plurality of rum-drinkers pay the penalty of their habit by a disposition to the more malignant forms of every epidemic.
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