Salt Lake Telegram | 1902-02-03 | Page 4 | Alcohol Food and Tonic

I ALCOHOL FOOD AND TONIC Those people whose delight It Is to hunt the exhilarating highball In his lair will be much comforted because of ot ofa ofa ota a recent statement put forth by Dr Albert P. P Mathews professor of physIological physiological phys phys- chemistry in the University of Chicago Dr Mathews asserts that beer wines and even whisky are good for the digestion and are not dangerous to the health unless used to excess It Is Interesting to note that Dr Mathews Mathews Mathews Math Math- ridicules the a set forth in some of ot tf the standard school books on physiology ogy ogy that alcohol exerts disastrous effects effects effects ef ef- ef- ef upon the stomach and nerves He Ie ass asserts that where bad results follow the use of ot alcoholic stimulants In moderation moderation mode mode- ration the deleterious Impurities mixed with the alcohol and not the alcohol itself It Itself Itself it- it self are to blame The statement continues continues continues con con- Alcohol Is easily digested when tak taken n into the stomach and It aids also In the digestion of other foodstuffs Alcohol In Itself does not bring Injury to the system when taken In moderation but butIs butIs butis Is rather of benefit to the health Beer and light table wines do not as a rule harm any system There are some cases of course when these drinks might not have a good effect but In the main they help the stomach to perform Its offices without doing Injury Moreover Moreover Moreover More More- over alcoholic drinks do not Injure the nervous system unless taken in gre greater ter quantities than the system is able to stand Alcohol Is a nerve tonic When drinks are taken in excess It ItIs itis itis Is natural to expect that the system will wUl suffer and most of the good effects of the drinks will be nullified In most cases where these bad effects occur the evil is traced not to the alcohol itself but to the ingredients that are mixed with the alcohol For Instance pure whisky is not bad tot for the man who drinks It but Impure whisky is dele dole Much r. r uch of the beer that is served in this is bad It Is a well-known well fact that persons coming from Germany Germany Ger Ger- many many where beer has been taken regularlY regularly reg rug at meals and at other times find that beer In America has another effect than that that they have been experiencing and makes them sick When It Is said that alcoholic drinks are damaging to the system it might be remembered that all over the world al alcoholic alcoholic alcoholic al- al coholic drinks are taken with meals and andare andare andare are found to be free from Injury If the liquors had had a damaging effect it would probably have been noted The text books in the schools nowadays which give great portions of their readIng reading reading read- read Ing matt matter r over to an ap exposition of the supposed evil effects of alcohol show how unscientific such treatments have grown to be Such books do not give the pupils who study them a proper knowledge of the subjects