. The funny side of physic : or, The mysteries of medicine, presenting the humorous and serious sides of medical practice. An exposé of medical humbugs, quacks, and charlatans in all ages and all countries. ore frequent by night than day. The cost of the clergy of the United States is six milliondollars yearly. Lawyers receive about thirty-five million dollars. Crime costs the United States about nineteen million dollars. Tobacco one hundred and fifty million dollars. (Thatscrime, also.) Liquors one billion four hundred and eighty-three millionfour hundred and ninety-one thousand ei^ht hundre
. The funny side of physic : or, The mysteries of medicine, presenting the humorous and serious sides of medical practice. An exposé of medical humbugs, quacks, and charlatans in all ages and all countries. ore frequent by night than day. The cost of the clergy of the United States is six milliondollars yearly. Lawyers receive about thirty-five million dollars. Crime costs the United States about nineteen million dollars. Tobacco one hundred and fifty million dollars. (Thatscrime, also.) Liquors one billion four hundred and eighty-three millionfour hundred and ninety-one thousand ei^ht hundred andsixty-five dollars. (Text-book of Temperance, p. 188.) Opium is eaten in the world by one hundred and twentymillion people. Hasheesh is used by sometwenty millions. The temperate live longerthan the intemperate. Self-destruction. The Hon. Francis Gillette,in a speech in Hartford, Conn.,in 1871, said that there wasin Connecticut, on an av-erage, one liquor shop to everyforty voters, and three to everyChristian church. In this city,as stated in the HartfordTimes, recently, we have fivehundred liquor shops, and onemillion eight hundred andtwenty-five thousand dollarswere, last year, paid for intox-. A GERMAN BEER GIRL. 682 DRUNKARDS. icating drinks. A cry, an appeal, came to me from the city,a few days since, after this wise : Our young men- aregoing to destruction, and we want your influence, counsel,and prayers, to help save them. In New London, report says, the young men are fallinginto drinking habits as never before. So in New Haven,Bridgeport, and the other cities and large places of the state. The pulse of a person in health beats about seventystrokes a minute, and the ordinary term of life is aboutseventy years. In these sevent} years, the pulse of a tem-perate person beats two billion five hundred and seventy-fourmillion four hundred and forty thousand times. If no actualdisorganization should happen, a drunken person might liveuntil his pulse beat this number of ti
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