which requires the alkaline properties of saliva to digest them properly.

ITS INFLUENCE UPON THE STOMACH.

Dr. Trousseau, a celebrated French physician, says:

"Scarcely are alcoholic substances taken into the system before they exercise an action upon the stomach, and then in a less degree upon the intestines; they are absorbed to great extent by the veins of the stomach; they pass through the portal system into the liver, into the right side of the heart, and thus into the pulmonary artery. They pass from the lesser into the greater circulation, and then act especially upon the whole lining of the arteries and upon the tissues of different organs."

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WHAT BECOMES OF THE ALCOHOL TAKEN INTO

THE BODY.

A series of experiments have been made by scientists with the view of ascertaining what becomes of the alcohol after being taken into the human stomach. These experimenters have come to the conclusion that alcohol is neither transformed into tissues nor destroyed in the living body, but that all taken in is excreted unchanged, so that this substance has no claim to be regarded as a producer of heat or as a true food, but must be placed in the same category as medicines and poisons. It is expelled from the body as a poison to be got rid of.

Dr. Wm. Aiken, of London, says, "All the observations and inquiries on the subject tend to the conclusion that alcohol passes through the body unaltered in form, and does

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not, so far as we know, leave any of its substances behind."

Morris, Perrine, and others, state that alcohol is not digested or decomposed in traversing the organism, but, during the whole period of its sojourn in the tissues, it is alcohol, and as alcohol acts on them, and as alcohol is expelled.

ITS EFFECT UPON THE LIVER.

After alcohol is taken to the stomach it is immediately absorbed and passes into the portal circulation. Dr. Trosseau says:

"The liver is the first organ in the track of the circulation, and the whole quantity of alcohol absorbed passes through it. Moreover, it is not a very vascular organ, but one in which the blood sojourns a long time for the requirement of biliary secretions. The liver, more than any other organ, is affected

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by its use. There are two kinds of lesions in the tissues of the liver arising from alcoholic substances; it may undergo fatty degeneration, or it may be the seat of chronic inflammation. In the former case it is steatosis; in the latter cirrhosis. In steatosis the liver is enlarged in volume, pale in color, and the hepatic cells are inflated with fat.

It materially interferes with the functions of the liver, by changing the action of the cells that secrete the bile, and thus preventing the bile from being eliminated from the blood. Hence it is that jaundice is a frequent disease amongst habitual users of alcohol in any of its forms.

EFFECTS UPON THE ARTERIES..

After passing from the stomach to the liver, going slowly through the portal circu

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lation, alcohol passes into the pulmonary arteries and from them into the lungs. In these arteries it often creates an inflammation known as arteritis. Dr. Laucerroux says:

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There exists a form of arteritis which is characterized anatomically by membranous formations on the interior of the vessels. This form of arteritis, which I have often . met with in the pulmonary artery, may determine to a great extent and in a manner altogether mechanical, coagulation of the blood, leading to obstruction of the artery and death."

The habitual use of alcohol often causes an inflammatory condition of the whole arterial system, and emboli sometimes form, blocking up the arteries, and subsequent gangrene may arise in those parts of the body in which the circulation is cut off.

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