Permanent temperance documents, of the American Temperance Society. Vol. I.

Date:
1835
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    with water, milk, or other mild diluent drinks, omitting every thing that contains alcohol. Within a few weeks, my health began to mend, and, at the end of one year, 1 was able to re- turn to arduous duties, demanding constant exertion of both body and mind. My frame, naturally vigorous and elastic, gradually recovered its tone, and now, thirteen years after the period of my greatest depression, 1 am able, upon a simple but common diet, consisting of the most usual articles of food, taken without any use of alcoholic stimulus, to perform constant labor in my profession, with much public speaking, and I sustain no inconvenience, except, the fatigue which sleep removes, as in the case of other healthy persons. I was, from childhood, constitutionally prone to bleeding at the nose, and sometimes to an alarming degree. After the recovery of my health, I al- lowed myself to use, with much rnoderatoin, the best bottled cider, at dinner only. After abstaining from it, for a few weeks, on a long journey, (because cider of a good quality could not be obtained, at the taverns,) my nose bleeding ceased, and with it the vertigos, and confused and uncomfortable feel- ings of the head and nerves, by which I had frequently been troubled. Thinking that cider might have been concerned in causing these effects I have never returned to its use, and for nearly three years, since I omitted cider, I have had no serious recurrence of these affections. P. S. In two other cases, within my knowledge, nose bleeding has ceased by the omission of cider. In one of these, the bleeding was excessive and dangerous. The individual last referred to is a very athletic man, of full habit and sanguine temperament.” 33. From the Honorable Robert Guest White, late High Sheriff of Dublin, Ireland. “ Having read in the American Temperance Recorder of No- vember last, your excellent letter of the 16th of October, as well as the editor’s able remarks thereon, calling upon every person to afford any information in their power, which may tend to confirm and permanently establish the principle of en- tire abstinence from the use, as a beverage, of all intoxicating drinks ; I, as an humble, but decided advocate thereof, beg leave to address you, and to state the result of my experience, since I was enabled to act upon this noble and heart-cheering system. To bring it into the compass of a letter, I shall commence by remarking, that, when elected High Sheriff of this City, in the spring of the year 1818, I was afflicted with an internal