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Chronic Alcoholism.* Most Of Us Remember...
digestive organs , " these symptoms are owing , . says Dr . Marcct , to one and the same cause , viz .. . ¦ ' the excessive , " da capo . Turning- to the synoptical table of 48 cases treated by the author at the Westminster *' Hospital , and ' it is but'due ' to . state , cured by the exhibition of oxyde of zinc , we find that the use of the glass which both cheers and inebriates , was indeed excessive . Case 1 : W . B ., a carpenter , drank one pint of giii daily , aud occasionally six or eight pints of beer . E . B . ( case . 4 ) - Began with twelve glasses of brandy daily , and afterwards took six glasses of rum , and five or six pints of beer . This alcoholic exceeder ; was a sailor . E , C . ( case 15 ) , a groom , took . a daily allowance of half-a-pint ot raw brandv , and five or six pints of stout daily ; this for eight eiht of ter
years when lie altered his allowance to gpints por . Case 33 , a policeman put under his belt the same quantum , viz ., one gallon of beer in addition to three glasses of spirits dady ; ancj J L a butcher , ( case 29 ) , with more taste at least drank a bottle ot port and half-a-pint of spirits daily : Case 31 , a labourer drank five quarts of beer , ( a gallon and one quarter ) , and a pint of gin daily . W . D ., without any profession , drank a daily average of a quart of beer , and a pint of gin and peppermint . We need not wonder if these gentlemen , who we may observe , as they spent on an average three shillings per day , or one guinea per week upon liquids alone , should have heen gentlemen of independent means , instead of labourerspolicemenand shoemakers ; we need not wonder , we say ,
, , if these were afflicted with ' giddiness , transient blindness , and muscce voliiantes . " But we do wonder at other cases , notably at one G . B ., P . 28 ( case 35 ) , a stoker in the House of Commons , who was afflicted with all the symptoms , and rheumatic pains into the bargain , just for drinking " one pint of ale dail y * and no ^ spirits . The rest may certainly have become " rotten by innibition , " to quote an authority , tut poor G . B . surely took no more than his profession needed , and his case was certainly not to be referred to excessive alcoholic stimulants , . especially-as he ¦ " became a . teetotaller three years previously . " Very different froin him is the case immediately preceding , a cutler , who at the age of thirty-six had been intemand drank 16 17 lasses of dail
perate for seventeen years , or g rum y , occasionally varying " the dose with " brandy . No wonder that he " suffered from the same symptoms , " the first time six or seven years ago , " after being garotted !' ¦ ' . But we must protest against Mr . Mareet classing with these patients a literary lady , * ' Mrs . B— , aged 24 , who for the last three months had been gTeatly engaged in literary work , who ascribed her illness to ., excessive reading and exertion of the mind . "'Very possibly ! if ladies will undergo great mental exertions , they must take the consequences ; but because poor Mrs . B— , who had very likejy written an abstruse article for the Ladies' Magazine , " or one of those deeply thrilling appeals we read in the " Englishwoman's Journal , " it is too bad to hint at an attack of "Chronic Alcoholism" in her case .
We might piit it to Dr . Mareet whether he may not have been mistaken in his habit of referring , as he says he did , the symptoms he adduces— which , as he well knows , are common to many , very many disorders simply to the effects of drink . Case 35 , with others , surely must have arisen from something else . Perhaps insufficient or bad food , a poor state of the blood , bad air , and general depression may have had something' to do with the illness of that wonderfully temperate stoker who consumed only one pint of ale daily , and had previously to his attack been a teetotaller for three years . He might have been stricken as he was whilst listening : through a crack to a dull speech . Nay , is Dr . Maroet ready to make an affidavit that his illness was not roferrable to the faot of his having taken the pledge ? Did he try
generous diet and a glass of port wine daily before exhibiting the zine ? Seriously , we wish Dr . Maroet had done so . We are tired of books written , as Mr . Shandy hath it , entirely hobby-horsically . Drunkeness and habitual excess are very shocking vices ; thoy not only hurt the persons who indulge , but they shook and hurt others . The best thing , perhaps , that the drunkard does is that he pays , and . must pay , the duty upon his enormous consumption , and thus . — -
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« , Ten thousand casks , Touched by the Midas fingers of the State , Bleed gold , for ministers to sport away . " and also to provide for our govornmeutary wants . But to hold up one ' s finger , as Dr . Maroot and the toototallors do , and to teU the moderate man that he is a groat sinner and a great fool , that his blood is aleoholioally poisoned , and that he is heir , in addition to other fleshly ills , to tremblings , sleepless nights , hallucinations , and musoco-volitantes , and other bugbears , is simply an oxaggoration , whioh is , of itself , one of the worst props whioh a good causo can have .
Mr . Maroet ' s book contains a few interesting items gathorod from Iu 9 own observation , or from the works oi' others } thus \ ro iind the oftou-repeated advioe , that it is better to drink portor than strong ul « > and advisable when accustomed to malt liquors , to take oxeroiso in order to avoid becoming fat and stupid , and predisposed to apoplexy . " Wino drinkers should take those wines whiah are most diuretio , and whioh create least headache or fever , Hook , Claret , Burgundy , Bucollaa , Rhenish , and Hormitage . Claret is tho most wholosome of all wanes ; whiolj . lust faot sWild make us rejoice if we aro to bo gainers by the remission of tho duty , Mr . Maroet gives somo sensible advice about taking tho lig & tor wines fresh at dinner , a practice whioh now very generally obtains , although he seems to tlunk otherwise . Tho book may also bo road with amusement , if not wholly with l > xoiit . __ „_
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tage of possessing , in a marked degree , the elements of novelty and originality j being in their general character and tendency unlike anything of the kind we remember to haye read be 3 pne ; and if only on this account they are likely to achieve a cbraii ' ii ' erable popularity . , . . The first upon our author ' s list of startling experiences , is . the tale of a " Haunted House , " a building which , since the death of its last inmate , has remained untenanted , on account of . sonie ugly stories which have gained circulation in connection with it . A reward is offered by interested parties to an 3 ' man bold enough to pass a night within the precincts of this anathematized dwelling , and discover the meaning of the supernatural orgies nightly yapposed to take place therein . One Godfred , a soldier belorDging tolthe Prussian corpsstimulated by the promised bounty ,
iinder-NE . W TALES . * . npiIE volume before . us , entitled . 2 V «? Diary of a Judye ,. comprises J _ a number of tales alleged to have been compiled from the notebook of a recently deceased French magistrate , vho , for several years exercised his official functions under the victorious sceptre of the first Napoleon . Upon the restoration of the House of Bourbon , however , the old Bounapartist tendered his resignation to the new ministry , and quitted France , determining to seek in the genial society of Englishmen , a refuge from the machinations of those hitter political opponents which ^ so unvaryingly pursued him in his own country . Devonshire was the salubrious spot chosen b y the self-constituted exile in which to repose after his bitter trials ; and here , says the author , it was his good fortune first to make his acquaintance . The old Judge , however , speedily discovers that the prejudices of the people with whom he is about to fraternise , are by no means in favour of the cause to which he is attached , and that , in fact , a hatred of Napoleonic usurpation is one of the leading characteristics of British patriotism ; ice therefore determines , in order to avoid the collision of principles and ; opinions , which would be inevitable should he once itstrude-himself into society , to live in perfect seclusion , holding no intercourse whatever with the families around him . ] i of ore the death of this patriotic old man , the Bourbon dynasty had again toppled ' over in Prance , and the star of his idol , Napoleon , had once more risen brilliantly in the horizon . " Last year , " says Colonel Addison , "it was my melancholy "task to consign this really excellent old man to the silent tomb . " To our author the deceased bequeathed his library , a ring of value , a present from the Emperor , and his papers and memoranda , to -which latter the public is indebted for the exciting and entertaining narratives contained in the present volume . We can conscientiously state that Colonel Addison has made the very most of the materials placed at his disposal . The stories in th ' is book are not only admirably constructed , but written with a power and intensity which thoroughly succeeds in absorbing and concentrating the attention of the reader . They have , moreover , the extra
advan-, takes forthwith to accomplish the terrible feat . Accordingly , on the night appointed he proceeds to , and takes up . bis quarters j . n an apartment of , the deserted mansion , over the mantelpiece ot which hangs a full-length portrait of the late proprietor . Our hero , being somewhat of a matter-of-fact personage , and entertaining a much more wholesomo dread of enemies in the nosh . than ditto in the spir it , double bolts the inner door , kindles a tire upon the hearth , and makes himself as comfbrtablo us could be expected under tho circumstances . After a considerable lapse ot time , however , he is . aroused from the indulgence of a short nap by a series of unintelligible sounds proceeding from the outer yard , and presently the door of his room is burst open , and two unseemly apparitions , one of whom bears an unniistakeable resemblance to the ' portrait over tho fire-place , make their
appearance before tlxo amazed and aghast spectator . Those two gnostly visitants hold a colloquy together , which throws some light upon the antecedent history and misdoings of tho old gentleman over the mantelshelf . Our hero , after witnessing a scone of concentrated horror , into the details of whioh wo have not spaco to enter , comes to tho conclusion that a murder has been formerly committed within the four walls of the spirit-haunted mansion ; , whioh suspicion he on the ensuing morning communicates to tint ; nearest magistrate , and , ultimately , tho whole particulars conp neoted with too deed of blood are satisfactorily brought to Ugjira . And thus our vaUiant and intropid Prussian indisputably eiums his docneur . , Upon the other tales wo will oiler no particular romarl * ,, nwrely stating that they are all worked up in tho same elaborate moaner , and aro well calculated to repay any reader fbr tho time- cjgnuKtvu nt
their porusal . . Tho next work upon our list in unothor series ot tnl * j &> liy-we « r . Warnoford , entitled Tales of tho Slave Squadron , " inteudwd to-lw descriptive of the various scenes and incidents whioh cwna-u » clor t \ w author's cognisance while actively engaged on hoaxul . the Ikvt appointed by lier Majesty ' s government , ior tjio sujipuesswn ol tlio African slave trade . Our Lioutommt denies tho asHertiw conHdoiitly made by- a lnrg-e number of negro frionds and advocates , tluit tiw African "is intellectually upon a par with the European ; iwvoitholoss ho deprecates with a warmth whioh doos honour to ius leoiings ns an Englishman , and his moral perceptions iwui disc |> k > oi Christianity , that awful traffic in human beings , which all tl »« gigantic onbrts of his countrymen have hitherto proved unsucooasim
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• Diary of a Jutlffe . Compiled from tho Woto Boult o ( n r ^ oonny doeonwd Judge-Hy U « utonnnt . OolPiral H . K . AUUIeon . Lonaon i > V « rd mid Ufk . r J l ' % ''' l Slave Squadron , 13 y Wwtoiimit WurnorwO , K . N ., AutUw of ' ThIqb of the c »«» t Guard . " Lomlon s OUnrlcB IX . CJurko .
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 15, 1860, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_15091860/page/10/
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