IS ALCOHOL AN ELEMENT OF THE HUMAN SYSTEM?

Now, if the chemist submits the various tissues of the different organs and structures of the body to analysis, he finds that they are composed of certain organic and inorganic substances or elements. If he submits the blood to chemical analysis, he finds that it also contains organic and inorganic elements that are nearly identical with those found in the various tissues of the body.

If the chemist examines a certain quantity of blood, he finds that out of one thousand parts 495.595, or nearly one-half, is corpuscles.

In the plasma, he finds the following substances :

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Water, albumen, fibrin, seroline, cholesterine, oleate, margerate, and stearate of soda, chloride of sodium and potassium, carbonate, sulphate, phosphate and free soda, carbonate, sulphate, and phosphate of potassa, sulphate of magnesia, iron and undetermined extractive matters in various proportions.

Water and albumen constitute nearly ninetenths of the plasma. Now, if he submits the various tissues of the body to analysis, he finds in them the various elements above enumerated that are found in the plasma of the blood.

One thing should be carefully noticed that is, in all of the anatomical, physiological, microscopical, and chemical examinations, that the healthy human blood and tissues have as yet been submitted to, no alcoholic stimulants in any form, have been found as one of the constituent elements of which they are made up.

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Alcohol is not a natural or essential part of the structure of any of the solids or fluids of the body. It constitutes no part of bones, muscles, brain, nerves, integuments, organs, glands, membranes, or tissues in the body, neither does it form any portion, either of the corpuscles or plasma of the blood, or fluid of the body. This is true of the blood and tissues of all animals as well as of human beings.

AN ANALYSIS OF FOOD.

If a chemical analysis is made of any of the various kinds of food eaten by either human beings or animals, we find in these organic or inorganic elements which go to make the blood, and the various tissues of their bodies, although they exist in somewhat dif ferent forms from that in which they are found in the living structures. Among the organic elements of food are : Fibrin, albu

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men, albuminose, caseine, mucosine, pancreatine, pepsine, globuine, musculine, osteine, cartilagine, elasticine, keratine, crystalline, all of which are found in the tissues of the body.

Among the inorganic principles in foods we find: Oxygen, hydrogen, carburetted hydrogen, sulpuretted hydrogen, water, chloride of sodium, chloride of potassium, phosphate of lime, carbonate of lime, carbonate of soda, carbonate of potassa, sulphate of potassa and lime, hydrochlorate of ammonia, carbonate of magnesia, and bi-carbonate of soda.

These inorganic substances, however, cannot be used as nutriment to any great extent, except when presented in an organized form.

It should be noticed in this connection that no analysis of any kind of food used by hu

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man beings, or even by other animals, has yet revealed the fact that it contains alcohol in any form.

HOW ALCOHOL IS FORMED.

Alcohol is obtained only by the decomposition and destruction of those properties of foods which are essential to the maintenance of human life. It is procured by fermentation and distillation, which is essentially a rotting, decomposing, and evaporating process. The life-giving and health-sustaining properties found in food are destroyed in generating or distilling alcohol. From the beginning of the process in the manufacture of alcoholic liquors until their final consumption and destruction by man, it is one constant life-destroying process. Grains and fruits, and various organic substances are destroyed in its manufacture, and human beings by the million are annually destroyed

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