VIEWS OF THE STOMACH.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4410, 21 February 1883, Page 4

VIEWS OF THE STOMACH.

In the Bridgend Hall, Perth, an inter.', eating lecture ? waa" delivered the- other? „ liight by Dr Trotter of Perth/ oh '« The^ Stomach,'* illustrated by views from slides shown by the limelight. The chair was occupied by Mr Edward,Tanishj':and, the attendance was large: After describing the nature amf functions of the stomach, the lecturer went oef; sdy "that, like other „patient and.willingjworkers, itwap, badlyf treated—being in fact" the • worM^R?^; organ in the body. Every sort of mess |,and abomination s w«s shoved,jn^p jt, all of Swliich it |ras,e|Epec|ca:to ipan^fac^are^ntp nourishment, and never to g*t unfit for work. Bequiriug, $-,tempe[rSliQEfi;j)f^biQUt, 98 deg for the proper performance of .Ua,. fanetiopf, ;th»i^Pl_9nLtlVa.tAsjAtt^;.jft4 ehampag&e at the freezing point, and~tea>. -■annkers - «c.ajd«d it,* vjijborthejr -favorite beyerage at 212; and almost boiled it alive P mißt s weeiinwEßl'ijß-BWBets and sugar," and the old wife poisoned it with camomile imd quihiife~f~ttie'y~olihg~ ma'a'empti'ed'intp' it enoogh soda and potash, to convert him _int,q soap—hard soap or soft-^in,.order_tb '/eonvitice the world of his manlinesS'f thB 1 young lady dosed it with vinegar t.o try to -omakeher.genteel; the.>pocir man stuffed it with tinder cooked' bread hot frondf jbhe' baker's ofen,i«nd< with of er- cooked beef boiled half a century ago; tbe rich man >rfta_nied iifr'iwith .oysters, mites,; and jumpers, all aliVe and 1 kicking, and game »^ip far gone with:<putrefactionf.rtja* :«t pig turn up itsixtosd at.lt;! and if the poor Bto_achlreb'eUed.'under;th»B exi'raor^ dinary,tr^atmen.t,,,eve,ry villainous abomination I invented 1 'of ' discovered from the creation till now, was poured into it, and everything nauseous -and disgusting that could be, heard^or thought of watt swallowed* ■ .with the, insane idea of, putting "iff; "fight—etactly- on - the' same principle, rjthat induced; .the 'pigwife to thrash her donkey because it was already ,90 weak with abuse that it conld not draw , its^loa^. 'About the drunkard's stomach. -]TO>li thei drunkard seemed to . ignore,the or possession of one ; he seemed conscious mefrely of haying a thrapple—a sort of bottomless pit' for throwing whisky into-rrppssjbly considering a bottomless pit' ah appropriate rec'ept'able for what has been described as " liquid" hell fire" one of the blessings of Providence if properly spplredi.but oce of thegreatest of ourses when not kept r ,in its proper place? When he himself was a young man, and (a m'annWcturer of alcohol, he put'that question to a Hindoo priest, whose reply was " Inside a bottle " ; and there, at all events, it was pretty harmless. But the a stomach and it should the lecturer went on, be, his object to show What it was like under a liberal application of alcohol, from table beer or brandy, or, to call things by their proper .names, with potato whisky, colored with .burned sugar • and flavored with brandy, fusil. At this point the screen was made to show tbe ~ stomach' iti n its normal condition ; and again'a 1 representation was given of the bloodshot stomachy the stomach of the modeiate drinker, the man who took bis grog daily but moderately, who sipped his wine ; with • his meals. - -The blood vessels of his stomach were enlarged and distended, and the red patches apparent might be either inflammation or the stains of alkanet logwood, from which they might conclude that the wine he drank was port, as called, that the subject had' drunk itr- while his -stomach was empty, ; and he , had " kicked the, bucket" almost immediately after. _To. 3 slide represents the habitual drunkard's., stomach,.,which,--.besides.-, a '''development of the former appearances, showed' several blue' spots "like' the .grog blossoms sometimes placed on the drunkard's nose. No. 4> was an advanced stage of:the same business, coxVoded with ulcers. No. 5 was taken from the stomach of a man who died suddenly, after being on the spree for several days, and exhibited -!a very high-degree of inflammation. No. '6 was the cancerous stomach of an excessive 'drinker, a sea captain, and a habitual imbiber of iin'diluted spirits. The "blue stains "^mijjjht be supposed to represent the'" clues ruin " he drank after* he found ;h«>'was,Bffeci'e^ by caucer., JSTo. ,-7 'might b« suppqWd to represent .the stomach of ythg—airwhp.drapk "jfine old Irish^hisky •^■fifteep-years in bond," though probably not out of the still for as man; days, colored .» fine rich yelloW by being kept.in a,sherry .cask all the time, which* beingißterpreted, -would mean that it had a, quantity of burned sugar added to it;'the real stingo, warranted to'peel the skin ail the way ,'dow.n —a result which seemed to have been produced in the" present'case. In some parts of the country thia"" Iralfe Irish" was \d great' favorite with drinkers, and was familiarlyi.known as ,-the .{' foretaste of 'futurity," probably a noi inapt designation.