Alcohol Is Poison by Healdsburg Flag

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 31, 1883

Alcohol Is Poison

By Healdsburg Flag

If one should accidentally drink any unknown fluid that would quicken his pulse, flash waves of heat and cold alternately over his body, shake his nerves, obscure his vision, cause ringing in his ears, produce palpitation, dizziness, nausea, coruscations, benumb the voluntary muscles, confuse the thoughts, depress the will, exalt the passions, and lower the vitality of the whole organism, he would demand a stomach pump (if he had enough sense left to apprehend what he needed), knowing that he was poisoned; but if the fluid be only called alcohol, these dreadful symptoms of poisoning become evidences of having a good time, and the man who denies the "evidences" is a "temperance fanatic!"—Healdsburg Flag.