GREENSBORO TELEGRAM; GREENSBORO, N. C, MAY 28, 1901.
NOT HEREDITARY.
Prnnkard' Children May toe
Degenerates but the Craving
for Drink i Not Tranmitted
London Lancet.
It is now 18 months since the Society
for the study of Inebriety appointed a
special committee to study the rela
tion of heredity to inebriety. The com
mittee was composed of five physicians
two surgeons, a professor of bacterio
logy, an army surgeon, and five gener
al medical practitioners. Eighteen
months have been spent in the investi
gation. The report of this committee
has just beeen published and it is sign
ed by nine of the fourteen members,
some of whom have made comments,
while one has sent in an indepednent
report. The reference to the commit
tee was in these terms; to investigate
he conditions under wbich the tenden
cy of drunkenness is capable of trans
mission to offspring, It does not ap
pear to be contended that inebriety is
in itself hereditary, but that a capaci
ty or tendency to it is heritable.
The report declares that the inebrie
ty of an individual depends upon three
conditions the first being an inborn
capacity for enjoying the sensations
which alcohol produces, and the second
and the third being acquired personal
experiences of the pleasures of alcohol
and the increased delight which con
tinued indulgence confers in the case
of the inebriate. That one drunken
generation often succeeds another sug
gest a hereditary taint. The commit
tee adds that there is no evidence that
acquired characters of any kind are
heritable. This appears to have been
a much debated question.
Popular opinion has taken for grant
ed characteristics of uu nunununununu
parents are likely to be inherited and
of course, temperance reformers, well
meaning, but often ignorant and mis
guided, have not been slow to urge upon
the public that each man's drinking is
pretty sure to produce for him a gen
eration of children who will become
drunkards. If this be not true the
temperance reformer (who is generally
in favor of entire abstinence rather
than of temperance) must bear a hea
vy responsiblity for the large amount
of mental torture which he has in
flicted on the moderate drinking citi
zen. The last words of science, however,
as declared by teachers of physiology,
biology and botany, is a very definite
assertion that no instance of the here
ditary transmission of an acquired
characteristic has ever been demons
trated either in the animal or the veg
etable knigdom. If this be a fact a man
can only transmit to his son the here
ditary taint with which he was born,
and if a man having no inborn ten
dency to excess yet acquires drunken
habits his progeny are in no more dan
gen than are those of his neighbor,
leaving out of consideration the ef
fect of environment of youth. It is not
denied that drunken parents who be
come thus mentally and physically
weak are liable to have children who
are degenerate weak in body and fee
ble in mind; such persons, in fact, as
under unpropitious circumstances
tend to become paupers, criminals, epil
entics and drunkards. The point which
is denied in that the drunkard's chil
dren has the specialized tendency to
become inebriate rather than vicious
in some other direction.
It seems probable that the -itiestion
of environment is cf more importance
after all then that of heredity, and a
man of strong will is just as likely tu
exercise it in the gratification of his
desires as in the contrary direction. If
a man of powerful will finds that alco
hol gives him pleasure he will take
good care to repeat the experience. The
habitual drinker is one to whom alco
hol brings enjoyment, either as positive
pleasure or as cessation of pain, where
as the vclutary abstainer is one, who,
from constitutional peculiarity, finds
little pleasure in alcohol exhilaration.
Alcohol weeds cut from every race -.he-individuals
who most enjoy and in
dulge in it. Th-j races cf southern
Europe who have had the longest ex
perience of alcoholic thinks arc now
more temperate than the British, the
Scaimavifins and the flvssians.
The. committee in of the opinion that
the coutir.ed aluse of alcohol tends to
render a race less innately prone to in
ebriety than it would otherwise have
been, this result being brought, about
by the elimination cf the drunken unfit
and the survival of those with a weak
tendency to alcoholism.
Rest
for those weak eyes is obtained
by properly adjusted glasses
which enable tired eyes
to do as much work,
possibly more than they
ever did. Delays are dangerous.
DRS. MOORE,
112 East Market Street.
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diseases of like character are classed as skin diseases, when they could just as
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Cancer, Catarrh, Scrofula, Rheumatism, Contagious Blood Poison, etc. ; the only
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diseases, Cancer, Catarrh, etc., are caused by some specific poison or virus, which
is either inherited or m other ways gets into the blood and attacks certain vital
organs or appears m the form of terrible sores and ulcers, while the milder and
less dangerous skin diseases are caused by blood humors or an over acid condition
of that fluid. These acid poisons, as they ooze out through the pores of the skin,
cause great irritation, with intense itching and burning. The eruption may be of
a pustular kind, with excessive discharge of thick, gummy fluid, or the skin may
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ol3 Woet Central. Wichita, Kans.
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and intractable the longer
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having a thick, hard, rough
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for a time with cosmetics;
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and powders may relieve
temporarily the itching and
burning, but eventually the
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n ul ui u e system, and settles on the lungs, heart or some other vital
rgan ana endangers life.
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