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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 6, 1888

BEER.

THE Medical Record makes the following statements concerning the use of beer:—

"The constant use of beer is found to produce a species of degeneration of all the organisms, profound and deep-seated. Fatty deposits, diminished circulation, conditions of congestions, perversion of functional activities, local inflammation of both the liver and kidneys, are constantly present. Intellectually, a stupor amounting almost to paralysis arrests the reason, precipitating all the higher faculties into a mere animalism, sensual, selfish, sluggish, varied only with paroxysms of anger that are senseless and brutal.

"In appearance the beer-drinker may be the picture of health, but in reality he is most incapable of resisting disease. A slight injury, a severe cold, or shock to the body or mind, will commonly provoke acute diseases, ending fatally. The constant use of beer every day gives the system no time for recuperation, but steadily lowers the vital forces.

"It is our observation that beer-drinking in this country produces the very lowest forms of inebriety, closely allied to criminal insanity. The most dangerous class of tramps and ruffians in our cities is beer-drinkers. It is asserted by competent authority that the evils of heredity are more positive in this class than from alcoholics."