Show ALCOHOL DEMENTIA one of tle beauy adful IIo of cn cance li drink within abo list ten years thui ninety successful wall street operators in that great financial maelstrom worl u all tho way from up to m ny millions havo been confined at bloomi ingvalo insane asylum in the city cf new york one of taco most productive causes of insanity i i drinking of the regular and moderate kind the eort of indulgence habitual with men who are never known to be perceptibly under influence of liquor they attend to their businda bu sinea properly but from the morning cocktail to alie nightcap before going to bed they are continually taking doroa of alcohol the process is actually a of slow poisoning depending to a great t stent upon the constitution of alio individual it may require few or many years to produce effects in the shape of disease of the body or mind but sooner or later if the person lives long enough it is certain to attack the brain the complaint thus caused is called alcoholic dementia and it is absolutely incurable owing to the fact that organic cli angea in the brain cells have been brought about the most hopeful kind of insanity from the physicians point of view is acute and violent mania As a rulo choso attacked by it recover entirely however acute mania is sometimes a symptom of commencing paresis that it is difficult to make a confident prognosis it ia a very curious fact that people of the farming class especially the women are particularly liable to diseases of the mind it is probably bo cause they are so much alone doctors of medicine are frequent victims of mental alienation chiefly for alie reason that they treat their own pains with dangerous drugs liko cocaine and morphine which they have readily at hand foreign experts say that we americans arc as a nation afflicted with neurasthenia that is to say nervous exhaustion is a necessary consequence from an insatiable appetite for money getting and indulgence in strong drink san francisco examiner |