How to keep well : a text-book of physiology and hygiene for the lower grades of schools / by Albert F. Blaisdell.
- Albert F. Blaisdell
- Date:
- [1921]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: How to keep well : a text-book of physiology and hygiene for the lower grades of schools / by Albert F. Blaisdell. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![has detected striking results. He tested a strong man, who was a total abstainer, as to the amount of intellectual effort he could put forth with and without alcohol. . . . The effect of one dose — i.e. two glasses — lasted ten hours. Its continued use day after day decreased still more the ability to do good work. If the dose were increased to three glasses a day, in five days the power of the brain was diminished enormously. If the use of alcohol was discontinued and the brain allowed to get rid of the poison, the intellectual power began to rise, and by and by it would reach its normal limit. A repetition of the experiment proved that the result from the alcohol [then] came much more readily than at first, showing that the brain had received an actual injury. Even if seven days were allowed to elapse before the experiment was repeated, one dose brought a return of all the symptoms.— T. S. Clouston, M.D., Edinburgh, Scotland. 43. The brutality of many of the acts which occupy the time of our coroners and our law courts is becoming serious. . . . Every day’s newspaper reports some deed which is simply brutal in its coarseness and its carelessness. . . . The invariable element in all such brutal acts is alcohol. — The London Lancet, 1898. 44. Disastrous as is the use of alcohol to our physical well-being, the evil wrought by it here is as nothing to the moral and intellectual degradation brought about in minds and characters of which the ori- ginal possibilities were of the very highest order. -— Professor G. Sims Woodhead, Cambridge University, England. 45. Alcohol diminishes the keenness of the moral sense ; it blunts the acuity of discrimination between right and wrong, and it impairs the will power, the power to do right, and easily leads its victims into a vicious life. — Daniel R. Brower, M.D., LL.D., Chicago, 111. 46. In France it has been found that insanity has increased with the increase of drunkenness. — C. W. Chancellor, U. S. Consul to Havre, France. 47. I do not advise you, young men, to consecrate the flower of your life to painting the bowl of a pipe, for, let me assure you, the stain of a reverie-breeding narcotic may strike deeper than you](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29821836_0273.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
