Conscience, the feeling of accountability, the sense of right and wrong, all become deadened, while the passions are aroused and excited." "What an awful disease!" exclaimed one of the listeners.
"You may well call it an awful disease," returned the doctor, who, under the influence of a few glasses of wine, was more inclined to talk than usual.

"It has been named the mother of diseases.

Its death-roll far outnumbers that of any other.

When it has fairly seized upon a man, no influence seems able to hold him back from the indulgence of his passion for drink.

To gratify this desire he will disregard every consideration affecting his standing in society, his pecuniary interests and his domestic relations, while the most frightful instances of the results of drinking have no power to restrain him.