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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 151, 18 May 1901, Page 1

[ADVERTISEMENT ] Temperance Items, * ; —;o: (Published by arrang meat,) EXTRACT Fl OM THE OTAGO DAILY TIMES, MOXDAY, MAY 13tb, 1901. '' SCOTLAND. (from our oun correspondent.) Edi n;u;o:i. Mi rob 81. DRINKING AS A CAUSE OF INSANITY. Some important remains upon subject wore m de at ihe annual meeting of the Corporation of Ihe Royal Edinburgh Asylum bn- the Insane by T. S. OJous’on, the eminent- Physician Superiu." tendant of that iastituiiou. ’ Ha began by saying that In iv.gard to the number of admissions the p-.at year had been a r eccrd one, and among the caused accounting for this he gave tne leading place to “ the exocdr.i vo use of alcoholic stimulants during times of brisk trade and high wages.” In 115 cases drinls was the sole or a contributory cause of disease attacks. The- figures represented about a quarter of thy fc-dal number of admissions. Of men done the alcoholic cases numbered eigbty-oue, or about onethird of the total for their sex. Dr Clouston went on to eay that he had never had experience of anything like that before, though be saw more than almost anyone else in Scotland of THE TERRIBLE EFFECTS OP EXCESSIVE ALCOHOLIC DRINKING’” IN DESTROYING HONOUR, * REASON AND SELFCONTROL. : He affirmed In >t for every man in whoiy such drinking caused absolute insanity, there were twenty in whom it the brain, blunted the mo r al sense, lessened the capacity for work. The brain generally, and especially in mental functions, suffered first and most from alcohol in excess. Dr CCuston dedared that the recent Inebriates Act wka almost a dead letter, but rtrged legislation was presciugly necessary. He was convinced that they would havo a big reckoning to piy supe day. Kg referred to the deterioration of the race by drinkojg, saying that while a consumptive race might conceivably .be absolutely cured in two generations, or even in one, by good conditions, ho dijl not believe a drink sodden race could .bo fully eu-cd in 100 years. In addition to the 115 alcoholic admissions, lie thought they could put down almost r.ll thqA forty-nine general paralytics in the same list. Dr Ciouslou proceeded to make some interesting remarks upon recent microfcopic researches which seemed to show that alcohol not only altered the brain structure, but injured the brain by poisoning the blood,

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