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294 CURRENT LITERATURE. hol," the honest advocate of temperance has good reason to pray that his own and liis neighbors' children may be saved from the teaching of his friends. The teacher in this lecture is provided with two bottles, an egg, a bcx of matches, a tumbler, and, unfortunately, a credulous audience. The alcoliol in one bottle is to be distinguished from the equally colorless water in the other by its "sour and bad smell" and by its inflammability. Moreover, when added to the white of the broken egg, and the mixture diligently stirre 1, the class is made to observe that the egg "is cooked." We are informed that "alcohol likes water, . . . and always drinks it up as quickly as it can." Having already learnt, in a previous lesson, that "seven-eighths of our bodies are composed of water" (this proportion is somewhat high, at all events for those not given to the ingestion of aqua pura only) we further learn that, inasmuch as "our brains are composed mostly of albumen and water," like the white of the egg, "when we drink anything with alcohol in it the alcohol goes right to the brain and hardens or cooks it, just as it has cooked the egg," while, "if we drink only a little bit of alcohol, then it hardens little streaks in our brain." The correspondent from whom this pitiful burlesque has been received describes himself as a total abstainer who believes that the world would be better for either (I) "prohibition" or (2) more liberal powers re-restraining habitual drunkads. Many of our readers doubtless are of his mind in this matter, but all will echo his pertinent inquiiy : What about this sort of school teaching of physiology ? Doubtless the class will, for the time, swallow the olla podrida of amateur chemistry, physiology and pathology as readily as they would haTC swallowed tlie egg, and may come eventually to imbibe the alcohol� for childhoods faith is measurable only by the ruin that ensues when in later life the deceptions which won its acquiescence are exposed. Criticism is in no way disarmed by the fact that the writer of these "Temperance Talks " is a woman, for a woman may prove an excellent teacher of elenientaiy physiology, provided she is mistress of her subject. Not long sii ce the temperance lecturer on an English platform, who had been demonstrating this same egg and alcohol experiment, and had told his audience that the gin and whiskey which they drank was continually producing the same results upon their delicate brain tissue, was disconcerted by an inquiry as to whether alcohol was, in this respect, more deleterious
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Fixed Title * | NCHH-19: North Carolina Medical Journal [1878-1899] |
Document Title | North Carolina Medical Journal [1878-1899] |
Subject Topical | Medicine -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical Other | Medicine -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Publisher | Wilmington; Charlotte : The Journal?, 1878-1899. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1891 |
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Document Title | North Carolina Medical Journal [1878-1899] |
Subject Topical | Medicine -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical Other | Medicine -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Publisher | Wilmington; Charlotte : The Journal?, 1878-1899. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
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Date | 1891 |
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Volume Number | 28 |
Issue Number | 5 |
Page Number | 294 |
Health Discipline | Medicine |
Full Text | 294 CURRENT LITERATURE. hol" the honest advocate of temperance has good reason to pray that his own and liis neighbors' children may be saved from the teaching of his friends. The teacher in this lecture is provided with two bottles, an egg, a bcx of matches, a tumbler, and, unfortunately, a credulous audience. The alcoliol in one bottle is to be distinguished from the equally colorless water in the other by its "sour and bad smell" and by its inflammability. Moreover, when added to the white of the broken egg, and the mixture diligently stirre 1, the class is made to observe that the egg "is cooked." We are informed that "alcohol likes water, . . . and always drinks it up as quickly as it can." Having already learnt, in a previous lesson, that "seven-eighths of our bodies are composed of water" (this proportion is somewhat high, at all events for those not given to the ingestion of aqua pura only) we further learn that, inasmuch as "our brains are composed mostly of albumen and water" like the white of the egg, "when we drink anything with alcohol in it the alcohol goes right to the brain and hardens or cooks it, just as it has cooked the egg" while, "if we drink only a little bit of alcohol, then it hardens little streaks in our brain." The correspondent from whom this pitiful burlesque has been received describes himself as a total abstainer who believes that the world would be better for either (I) "prohibition" or (2) more liberal powers re-restraining habitual drunkads. Many of our readers doubtless are of his mind in this matter, but all will echo his pertinent inquiiy : What about this sort of school teaching of physiology ? Doubtless the class will, for the time, swallow the olla podrida of amateur chemistry, physiology and pathology as readily as they would haTC swallowed tlie egg, and may come eventually to imbibe the alcohol� for childhoods faith is measurable only by the ruin that ensues when in later life the deceptions which won its acquiescence are exposed. Criticism is in no way disarmed by the fact that the writer of these "Temperance Talks " is a woman, for a woman may prove an excellent teacher of elenientaiy physiology, provided she is mistress of her subject. Not long sii ce the temperance lecturer on an English platform, who had been demonstrating this same egg and alcohol experiment, and had told his audience that the gin and whiskey which they drank was continually producing the same results upon their delicate brain tissue, was disconcerted by an inquiry as to whether alcohol was, in this respect, more deleterious |
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