Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1892 — Drunkenness a Physical Disease. [ARTICLE]

Drunkenness a Physical Disease.

That inebriety is a disease of a physical nature is capable of demonstration, and is generally recognized. There is now no question or doubt of its being hereditary, and no one doubts that it is acquired by social customs. That it is also a disease of the moral nature, engendered by allowing the intellectual faculties to remain inactive, by not exercising the power of conscience and will, by permitting the power of appetite and passions to dominate over conscience, by the lack of a positive character, by defective moral education, and by the want of self-culture, Is equally as certain and can be as clearly proved. —Doctor Day.