Word: alcoholic
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...lecturer often wondered that educated men, fully posted on the immensity of the evils of alcohol, should yet remain silent. Learned lectures, replete with statistics, are delivered on the "gigantic evils of the railroad system." Controversy is worn out in the question whether Greek and Latin shall form a necessary part of a liberal education; some even find time to set forth the "littleness, weakness, baseness of base-ball;" hut on that other question concerning a subject which is of immeasurably more importance than all the others combined, we have only silence, and a good deal...
...carbon, such as ham and sausages, which should always be eaten cold. Three years ago this would have been considered ridiculous by trainers, but for a diet for running, walking and rowing, it has been found that saccharine food, with beef or mutton, is the best ; tea, coffee and alcohol, as well as condiments, are objectionable ; indeed, it is not the quantity of food a person eats that strengthens him, but the amount assimilated and worked into the organism...
...Reade. It is entitled "Study and Stimulants." The author has taken pains to collect personal opinions and experiences from men distinguished in literature and science, and has thereby arrived at conclusions which cannot fail to be serviceable to all brain workers. These conclusions are as follows: 1. That alcohol and tobacco are of no value to a healthy student. 2. That the most vigorous thinkers and hardest workers abstain from both stimulants. 3. That those who have tried both moderation and total abstinence find the latter the more healthful practice. 4. That almost every brain-worker would be the better...
...there follows the testimony of almost all the prominent authors and scholars of the world, from W. D. Howells to Victor Hngo, on the subject of the use of stimulants and tobacco. Many approve of a moderate use of both. None of those quoted, however, resort to alcohol as a habitual stimulus to thought. And many yet abjure the use of both alcohol and tobacco. Their combined testimony, however, cannot fail to be of use to any student in forming his opinions on a matter so vexed and disputed as the question of total abstinence and temperance at present...
...cold water a systematic thirst required, and that if it was really necessary to reduce the weight of a man and get the fat off him, it must be done by diet and exercise, for all the sweating in the world would not take off fat. The use of alcohol was condemned, and by its use Dr. Sargent said men had put a stigma on athletics which it would take centuries to wipe out. In the New England climate he thought a little lager beer was good, and would do far less hurt than coffee, but notwithstanding there...