Whisky Does Not Aid Digestion

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 19, 1900

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 26, No. 38.

Whisky Does Not Aid Digestion

One of the leaders of the Catholic Total Abstinence Society says, "I don't blame a man for getting a drink of whisky to aid in digesting a badly-prepared meal." Then where is the virtue of total abstinence? But this clerical abstainer ought to know that whisky is a digestion destroyer, and could not possibly help to digest anything. He ought to know that a stomach laden with a "badly-prepared meal" is in a worse condition for resisting the evil effects of a drink of whisky than a stomach properly fed. The "badly-prepared meal" is enough imposition on the stomach, without adding the poison contained in a drink of whisky.