Beer-Drinking

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Feb 22, 1883

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 9, No. 8.

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Beer-Drinking

BEER-DRINKING.—A boy in a bed in a hospital, motherless and friendless, had received a slight wound which pure blood would have thrown off, but he was a beer-drinker, and his hurt, with his poisoned blood, produced erysipelas. Dr. Edwards says: "The diseases of beer-drinkers are always of a dangerous character, and in case of an accident they can never undergo the most trifling operation with the security of the temperate. They almost invariably die under it."