Liquor And Cholera

In view of the dreaded approaeh of Ihe cholera Bcourge to uur short! perhaps th following evidenep on tl e marmer in wliicli the ue of spirits predisposes tlie person usini tliem 10 the nttacks of the die.d disease tnay prove a warning to eveji the so-c.illed moderate drinkers. The Messmger des Chambres iflve the followlny extrMOt frnna a lettrt of a Waraw plivsiciiin: " It is a postUre tact that tlie clmleia does not seize on Itl victiins at hazard, as many say. Thi contagión up to the present period hus respected all persons who leid a regular lile and üve in liealthy places, and lias fttruck without pity every man worn oul by excess imd dis-ipition. It lias heen ascerlained that out of every hunilred individuáis wlio die of iliis disease uluety ue in the hahit of drinking ardent spirits to exeess. Woincii rarely addict them-tlvca togtrong liquors, and, uccordingly. few ot theiu are attacked hy the cholera" Prof. Slickintosh, of Edinburjr, who ranks high in the medical profeMluD, aml who was physician to an extensive cholera hospital, states that drunkards were Ihe persons generally attacked. In oontrasting the causes piediposinjr to choleri he also reumrks: "And above all. the dissipated, particularly those ad (Jicted to the hahitual use of ai den t spirits. It has been computea that livesixlbs of ail who have fallen by this disease in Bngland were taken trom the ranks of ti. e inleniperiite and dii-solute." Dr. Bronson, of Montreal, says: " The liwitiial use of ardent epiilts, in the -millist quantity, seldom fails to invite the cholera, and to render it incurable lien il takea ilace. Ui. l'liinelaniler, wlio visited Montreal during the prevalence of the cholera there, in the slimmer of 1832, says that the vk-tims ot thedisease are inleniperate. I ii that city, alter there had been 1,300 of the malady, a Montreal Journal itates that ¦' nota drunkard who had been attaeked has recovered, and almost all Ihe victims have at least been moderate drinkers. "' Dr. Sewell. who visited the cholera hospilala 'it New York, states that of 204 ca8 in the Park Hospital tliere wenonlysiix tempérale persons, and that the.-e had recovered; while 122 ot' the oihers had died when he wrote, and that the tacts were similar iu all the other hospltals. Mr. Buber, who saw 2.1G0 perish in in one town ot Hu -Ma, ?ays: "It is a most ri-maikable cireumstance that permita given to drink have been cwepi HWM like flieg. In Tiüij". coutuining vmjv iiiiiauiiaiits, every drunkard bit lallen; all are dead, not one remaUlInx" ür. Ad arus, of üuhlin, allims: "Our foreign reports testify that drunkards are carried oö at once by this dim disease; bul those who, by daily use, debilítate the tone of their stoinachs and biliary organs, becme easy victims to the cholera." G. Hamilton Bell. F. R. C. 8. E., in his publication on cholera, says: "Above all, intoxicación and diaipated liabit llave been found, whenever the diseage prevailed, powerlully to predispuse to cholera." Geor-re K Paterson. surgeon, Dundee, savs: " There canuot he a doubt heltl for a moment on the subject, that low and iutemierte habita are strong inducenients In favor of the disease at any time, but tar more to an epidemie that is prevalent. Forexample: iu Dundee, more individuáis, on an average, have been attacked in the beginning of the week, and lilis has been ascribed, witli miich apparent truth, to tlie drinking habita and irregular modes of liviDg of auch on the previnm Saturday nljflit. Dr. Mussey, U. S., says: "Upon boats on the river the increaseof brandy drinklilld consequent upon the appiuach of cholera, has been frightful, and the mort'ility and on board oi those vessels h s heen terrible and unprecedented. One boat lost 43, another 47, and ¦ third 5i of lts passei'gersand crew. Brandy is nota prophylantic in any case. To the températe It is an active-exciting cause. 'JVi the drinker it Is not advisable to drop off the ususuddenly; but the quantity should be dlinlnUbed rather thau increased. In 1832, in Albany, where 33(i cases of cholera ocenrred in a cominunity of 26,000 inliahitauts, one-third of whom were members of temperance societies, on!y two of the menibers died. lasl winter tiiis dreadfd fcourgewas raging in New Orleans, and the papers of that place disclose the same fact. Among the bundredl that. were swept off hy the disease only two were Sous of Temperance, and auioiig the 1,200 Iu the city, only