LAGER BEER AND BRIGHT'S DISEASE.
A DENVER physician yesterday informs us that there were many cases of Bright's disease in this city. As yet there has been no cure discovered for it, and it seems yearly to grow more fatal. Scientific men say that lager beer as at present used conduces to the prevalence of this disease. Lager should contain about four per cent of alcohol in order to preserve it; but this quantity has been reduced greatly, which causes the beer to rapidly acidify and purify. To overcome this tendency, the brewer has discovered that a certain preparation of lime will enable him to keep his beer from souring. But this disulphide of lime eats off the rosin that lines the kegs and the solution goes into the beer. The rosin has the effect of overloading the natural action of the kidneys, and produces diabetes and Bright's disease.—Denver Republican.