Steady eating is more dangerous than steady drinkiDg. A person may live longer under the indulgence, but he lives more miserably. He does not have the wild pleasures and excitements of the debauch in liquor. He does not wear himself out so rapidly, but he does so infinitely more wretchedly. Our physicians are for ever preaching diet ; one sect of Q-alens founds its entire system upon this principle. Too much whiskey may be bad, but they recognise too much pudding as infinitely more dangerous. Bating is more insidious than drinking. If a man falls from grace, and becomes , inebriate, he knows it, his friends know it, but he may go on for years stuffing himself till bis liver swells like that of a Strasburg goose, and neither he nor his most intimate associates ever appreciate the fact. Public opinion condemns drinking, while it looks complacently on the infinitely more loathsome vice of eating*
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Southland Times, Issue 1240, 22 April 1870, Page 3
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