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EFFECTS OF TEA AND COFFEE DISCUSSED.
ALCOHOL CRAVING.
OF
Professor Walter E. Dixon, F.R.S., in the course of his address
Alcoholism should be distinguish
in the
ed from drunkenness. The normal man after taking somewhat im- moderately of alcohol becomes certain respects abnormal; alcoholic, on the other hand, takes alcohol because he needs it to be come normal. He is a neurotic and alcohol relieves his condition. The alcoholic is the type of person who, if opportunity affords takes to drugs, and having once transferred his allegiance to the needle prac- tically never returns to alcohol.
A SCOTTISH LEVY TYPE CRUSADES."
INTERESTING DISCOVERY IN ROME.
VATICAN ARCHIVES.
In the archives of the Vatican Library there has been found a at the ninety-eighth annual moet- The normal increase in the to Thirteenth Century supplement to ing of the British Medical Associa-bacco habit in the last thirty years Boinmund's Roll, which supplies the tion taking place in Winnipeg is not unassociated with the stress hitherto missing details of the recently said that addiction to of modern life. The weed acts as taxation of Church benefices levied drugs had recently assumed such a mild sedative to the central nervin the south of Scotland towards world-wide dimensions that the ous system. Tobacco then may be financing the Crusades. problems connected with it required helpful to all whose sensory thres-" The document consists of five much investigation.
hold is abnormal.
parchment strips, and, although The advance of Science, the speaker stated, had limited
andated, it carries Internal evi- the
The Drug Habit. need for manual labour and sub-] The drug habit Professor Dixon dence that it was compiled about stituted an indoor life for the declared, is not a disease, bat the year 1980, Bearing a notarial natural outdoor life. These rather a sign of pre-existing mental sign attesting the authority of the changes constituted some of the condition. Were it a disease it collection, the manuscript is noted causes which led tu neurosis, but should be readily curable, but every as pertaining to the diocese of another was the universal and one is agreed that this is not the Glasgow, which in these days in- regular consumption of caffeine, the case. The relatively more normal cluded the whole south-western area of Scotland, with the exception of are the easiest to cure. commonest though it might be the people
of Galloway. lenst harmful, of drug addictions. Some men take small doses
The discovery was made by the Tea and coffee, the chief caffeine spium or morphine regularly all beverages, were consumed most their lives without any apparent ill Carnegie Research Scholar, Dr. largely by the English-speaking effect, but the neurotic type of Annie Maclaren, in conjunction races. One good cup of tea usual-patient is never satisfied and always with the prefect of the Vatican ly contained more than a grain of wants to increase his allowance Secret Archives. The
until he becomes a complete de divided into
the
aver-
generate.
The addict prefers heroin to morphin. It intoxicates more deep
Roll is
the deaneries of caffeine.
that SO
Teviotdale, Annan, Nith, and age tea-drinker consumed five to
its immediate interest is topo- eight grains of caffeine daily a not inconsiderable amount. The con-
graphical, as it abounds in place tinual use of caffeine produced. The heroin habit is more easily names once prominent in Lowland mental irritability and excitability, contracted and less readily cured on county life, and now unrecognisable, and sometimes dizziness and diges- account of the respiratory syncope towns are there, with their con- although all the larger Border tive troubles, while rellexes were which is apt to occur when the always exaggerated. All these ef- Irug is stopped. In fact the hero-tributions marked to their credit.
Annandale raised the largest. fects could be produced by six n habit is the worst of all the drugi to seven grains daily.
vices known to man and the most amount with £224 163. 8d. and Dosenes the least with £55 11s. Id. Caffeine had been 'called an in-difficult to cure. tellectual leverage because it was; As regards addiction to drugs. Anerum alone provided as much as supposed to facilitate thought and Professor Dixon stated, it is rare £30 13s. 4d., but a church at a place association, but modern investiga- in Great Britain, and is not common called Penpunt gave nothing, plead- its tithes belonged to tions showed that it had not quite in France except among
artists,ing that
Aberdeen. the effect that had been taught, demi-mondaines, and the idle rich,
The tabulation of this ancient The inordinate use of caffeine for but large quantities of narcotic many years predisposed to niental drugs are manufactured in France record of Scotland's levy for the
Cruades irritability and instability, which and exported. In Germany addicts
is almost as, clear and were features of the neurotic per- are increasing in number. Egypt fresh to-day as it was when com- son, Tea also occasionally pro-has become the happy dumping piled for Boiamund de Vicci, Rome's
tax-gatherer some 650 years ago. and nearly duced an extreme degree of physi-ground for narcotics, cal depression.
Dr.
A Natural Craving.
25 per cent. of those confined to prison are charged with drug of fences. In the United States the Dixon then dealt with Commissioner of the Treasury in the effect of alcohol. Alcohol 1921 estimated that, there were at he said, differs from marcotics least one million addicts, but since. in. general because it is then the number has steadily di- widely distributed throughout na-minished.
ture in association with living cells.) Under the influence of alcohol mentul operations
are shortened
Lord Sands passed sentence of
A BROKEN DOWN.SYSTEM, This is a condition (or di se vsej to which docLDES give many same, but which few of them really andarkand. Itissimply weakness-breakdown, as it were, of the vital forces that sustain the sys- fam. No matter what may be iis causes they are bertats), itá sýtpptoms are much tha sama; the more prominent being sleepiness, annas of proscrmilous or weariness, depression of spirits and went of soergy for all the ordinary shairscitifs. Now whatalone Isabactately essen talla ell suchcases is increased vitality-vigour, vis strength and energy to throw of these morbid fealings, and as night succeeds the day this may be more certainly secured by course of THE NEW FRENCH REMEDY.
ths by any other known combination. Surely as it is taken in accordance with the directionERO- "companyingit;willihashatteredhealthbærestered THE EXPIRING LAMP OF LIFE LIGHTED UP AFRESH.
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of crime.
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