Digestion : the passport to health / by Alfred Wright.

  • Wright, Alfred.
Date:
[1883?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Digestion : the passport to health / by Alfred Wright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    soul-destroying, is destructive to bodily- health. Beer, we are told, is unwholesome, and has a soddening effect on the brain ; spirits are so much poison ; claret, in this cHmate at any rate, has a weakening and depressing tendency; burgundy overheats the blood; champagne is the precursor of the gout. Swayed by a sense of duty, and animated with a desire to set a laudable example, the teetotal recruit binds on his blue riband and signs the pledge. Nature, though ever indulgent, must still be satisfied. Even a teetotaller must drink. But where is the lucldess individual who studies the medical journals to slake his thirst ? Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink the non-abstainer cries out in despair. He will be gravely told that the organisms existing in almost all water within the reach of civilised man can only be destroyed by a slow and steady process of boiling, and even then some of the animal- culse may have escaped destruction. He will be warned against placing absolute faith in the refreshing lemonade or the foaming ginger pop, for who can tell where the former