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Show DIET A8 A CAUSE OF SUIGIDB. ) H Thyaleian Thlnka He Haa Olaeovered aha M Raaaoo of Malt-Deatraetlon. V, H Dr. Halg Is ot opinion that suicide ', M may be traced to error In diet, tho orror M 'being tho eating of meat, the drinking f fl of beer nnd of tea, and the smoking ot J M tobacco. His facts all tall comfortably H Into their places In support ot his by- M M pothesls. Are thcro not moro suicides ; fl among men than among woman, and ;, fl do not men consume more meat, mora i M beer and moro tobacco than tho worn- jj M en? Again, suicide Is more common In M England than In Scotland, not appar- H ently because tho Scotch rro a more I H canny raco, but becauso tho English J H eat more meat and drink more beer, M whllo tho Scotch cat less meat and 9 M drink whisky Instead of beer. After H maintaining that suicide was less com- . mon among the Scotch, It was perhaps M hardly pollto, when addressing a M Scotch nudlenco, to go on to say that H Bulclde Increased with civilization. But H the fact was explained on the ground H of more Injurious diet, that of civilized H man being moro productive of uric acid M and thus ot suicide than that which . H prevails where civilization Is loss ad- i H vanced. Uric acid Is, in tact, nt the j H bottom ot nil this, nnd, nccordtng to j M Dr. Halg, tho Incidence ot suicide .al- I t lies with tho dally, annual and Ufa J H fluctuations ot uric acid In tho blood, H being commonest when uric acid la M most abundant We have no doubt ,; fl that errors ot diet are responsible for , U much, and, among other things, for a fl certain number of suicides, nay, w U would go further and ndmlt that un- U suitable diet, derangement ot the prop- H cr relation between nutrition and M waste, and the consequent loading of M the tissues and tho blood with abnor- M mal product! ot metabolism, have much M to do with that 111 temper anddlscon- M tent which lead men to lay their bands M violently, often upon their neighbors, , H and sometimes on themselves. All this M may bo taken for granted, but It is at , M present far from proved that the pec- M cant material Is In all cases the same, M and still further aro we from being H agreed that uric acid Is the origin of H tho fl |