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Show . Two Thousand Drunks. More interesting and more remarkable, remark-able, perhaps, than any other discio-s-ures made by Dr. Danna are those relating re-lating to the capacity of men for drink and the duration of life among habitual habit-ual inebriates. On the latter point the conclusions reached are that in serious seri-ous cases the duration of life is about fifteen years, the maximum being over ' ! forty years. In general, it is said that hard drinking can rarely be carried on for more than twenty years, and it generally brings the victim to grief at about the age of 40. Referring to per-' sons who drink most heavily and frequently, fre-quently, it is said that it takes ten or fifteen years to bring on dementia or , i insanity, during which time it may be j estimated that each inebriate consumes about 2,000 gallons .of intoxicants. A man 55. years old confessed to Dr. Dana that he had been drunk twice a day for f threee years, making about 2,000 intox- j ications; another man of 40 had been drunk weekly for twenty years, and a j third, aged 43, had been drunk 1.00C 5 times in fifteen years. Two thousand ? "drunks" is set down as the maximum , limit in any ordinary inebriate ex- perience. . |
