The day book. [volume], July 13, 1912, Image 14

About The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917

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you and papa are playing. See,
here are the pretty flowers you
frowed away, naughty man, and
I picked them up again. They're
all just for you."
And once more the fragrant
bunch was pushed toward that
sullen face; once mor the limpid
eyes "beamed upon him; once
more the red lips smiled greefully.
The descending knife Stopped,
poised an inch from the steel
king's heart Then the weapon
rattled to the floor; one big arm
sank down; the other relinquish
ed its crushing grip on the in
tended victim. The anarchist
bent quicbkly forward, drew the
angel face to him and passion
ately pressed the smiling lips to
his own.
Then he straightened up, glar
ed once more malevolently at the
millionaire and strode to the door.
As it opened he pushed the little
bunch of drooping flowers be
neath the lapel of his coat, and,
passing out, uttered but one
tword:
"Live."
. ;DR. WILEY Oti ALCOHOL
j I think there is a marked ten
dency in the profession to regard
the virtue of alcohol as very
questionable. The old, idea that
a-if one is going to expose himself
xjfo extreme danger or extremes of
;limatic conditions, the body
should be fortified by the use of
alcohol has disappeared.
,r It is quite certain now that al
fpohol does not make one less apt
vjo freeze, but more so, and that it
does not give any such amount of
energy as to be at all compensa
tory for the injury it may pro
duce. On the witness stand I
stated that I considered alcohol a
food because a certain quantity of
it is burned in the body, with the
production of heat and energy.
In the light of recent investiga
tions, however, and from theo
retic considerations, I am inclined
to the opinion that the effort to
rid the body of even the small
quantities of alcohol mentioned,
may, perhaps, consume a great
deal more energy'that is furnish
ed by its combustion, and that, as
a whole, it cannot be regarded as
a food, even in a limited sense.
The susceptibility to certain
diseases of persons addicted to
alcohol has been noted by many
writers, and the records of death ,
by sunstroke indicate that a very J
large percentage of the victims
are alcoholics.
The tendency which alcohol
has to weaken the bodily resist
ance, therefore, is a matter not to
be left out of consideration! '
The general result of the study"
of this problem has been an ac
celerated movement to restrict
the use of alcohol in medical prac
tice, and especially in hospital
practice.
Both as a means of preventing
disease and as a remedy, this
agent is rapidly falling into dis
repute, so that it bids fair to be
come merely a memory in our
materia medica and the pharma
copedia. . o o
Remember This -Do your
Christmas shopping early.
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