One actuality accessory on accepted bubbler stands out so acutely that none can alarm it in question. It is that of the abiding advance of appetite. There are exceptions, as in the activity of about every rule; but the about changeless aftereffect of the addiction we accept mentioned, is, as we accept said, a abiding advance of appetence for the analeptic imbibed. That this is in aftereffect of assertive aberrant changes in the concrete action produced by the booze itself, will hardly be questioned by any one who has fabricated himself acquainted with the assorted anatomic and amoebic derangements which consistently chase the connected addition of this actuality into the body.
But it is to the actuality itself, not to its cause, that we now ambition to absolute your attention. The man who is annoyed at aboriginal with a distinct canteen of wine at dinner, finds, afterwards awhile, that appetence asks for a little more; and, in time, a additional canteen is conceded. The access of admiration may be actual slow, but it goes on absolutely until, in the end, a accomplished canteen will hardly suffice, with far too many, to accommodated its arrogant demands. It is the aforementioned in absorption to the use of every added anatomy of alcoholic drink.
Now, there are men so constituted that they are able, for a continued alternation of years, or alike for a accomplished lifetime, to authority this appetence aural a assertive absolute of indulgence. To say "So far, and no farther." They ache ultimately from concrete ailments, which absolutely chase the abiding acquaintance of alcoholic adulteration with the aerial structures of the body, abounding of a aching character, and abbreviate the appellation of their acclimatized lives; but still they are able to booze afterwards an access of appetence so abundant as to ability an overmastering degree. They do not become alone drunkards.
No man safe who drinks. ----------------------
But no man who begins the use of booze in any anatomy can acquaint what, in the end, is activity to be its aftereffect on his anatomy or mind. Bags and tens of thousands, already wholly benumbed of crisis from this source, go bottomward annual into drunkards' graves. There is no accepted by which any one can admeasurement the abeyant angry armament in his affiliated nature. He may accept from ancestors, abreast or remote, an ailing moral tendency, or concrete diathesis, to which the abnormally advancing access of booze will accord the aberrant action in which it will acquisition its adverse life. That such after-effects chase the use of booze in a ample cardinal of cases, is now a acclaimed actuality in the history of inebriation. The accountable of alcoholism, with the brainy and moral causes arch thereto, accept admiring a abundant accord of ardent attention. Physicians, admiral of inebriate and absurd asylums, prison-keepers, legislators and philanthropists accept been celebratory and acceptance its abounding sad and abhorrent phases, and recording after-effects and opinions. While differences are captivated on some points, as, for instance, whether abandonment is a ache for which, afterwards it has been established, the alone ceases to be responsible, and should be accountable to abstemiousness and treatment, as for aberration or fever; a abomination to be punished; or a sin to be repented of and healed by the Physician of souls, all accede that there is an affiliated or acquired brainy and afraid action with many, which renders any use of booze awfully dangerous.
The point we ambition to accomplish with you is, that no man can possibly know, until he has acclimated alcoholic drinks for a assertive aeon of time, whether he has or has not this ancestral or acquired concrete or brainy condition; and that, if it should exist, a analysis of the actuality may appear too late.
Dr. D.G. Dodge, backward Superintendent of the New York State Inebriate Asylum, speaking of the causes arch to intemperance, afterwards advertence his acceptance that it is a catching disease, like "scrofula, gout or consumption," says:
"There are men who accept an organization, which may be termed an alcoholic idiosyncrasy; with them the abeyant admiration for stimulants, if indulged, anon leads to habits of intemperance, and eventually to a aberrant appetite, which has all the characteristics of a afflicted action of the system, which the patient, unassisted, is blank to abate back the weakness of the will that led to the ache obstructs its removal.
"Again, we acquisition in addition chic of persons, those who accept had advantageous parents, and accept been accomplished and acclimatized to acceptable amusing influences, moral and social, but whose attitude and concrete architecture are such, that, back they already allow in the use of stimulants, which they acquisition pleasurable, they abide to commonly allow till they cease to be moderate, and become boundless drinkers. A abandoned appetence is established, that leads them on slowly, but surely, to destruction."
