MEDICAL TESTIMONY ON ALCOHOL.

Dr. Ezra M. Hunt says: "The capability of the alcohols for impairment of functions and also the initiation and promotion of organic lesions inimportant components, is unexceeded by any record within the whole vary of drugs. The facts on this area unit thus indisputable, and then way granted by the profession, on be not debatable . Changes in abdomen and liver, in kidneys and lungs, within the blood-vessels to the minutest capillary, and within the blood to the littlest red and white blood disc disturbances of secretion, fibroid and fatty degenerations invirtually each organ, impairment of muscular power, impressions thus profound on each nervous systems on be typically unhealthfulthese, and like these, area unit the often manifested results. And these don't seem to be confined to those referred to as intemperate." 

Professor Youmans says: "It is obvious that, to this point from being the conservator of health, alcohol is a vigorous and powerfulexplanation for sickness, officious, as it does, with the respiration, the circulation and also the nutrition; currently, is the other result possible?" 

Dr. F.R. Lees says: "That alcohol ought to contribute to the finished method underneath sure conditions, and manufacture in drinkers fatty degeneration of the blood, follows, as a matter after all, since, on the one hand, we've got associate agent that retains waste matter by lowering the nutritious and discharge functions, and on the opposite, a direct slayer of the vesicles of the important stream." 

Dr. Henry Monroe says: "There is not any quite tissue, whether or not healthy or morbid, that will not bear fatty degeneration; and there'sno organic sickness thus hard to the health care provider, more or less troublesome of cure. If, by the help of the magnifier, we tend toexamine a really fine section of muscle taken from an individual in physiological state, we discover the muscles firm, elastic and of a bright red color, created of parallel fibres, with lovely crossings or striae; however, if we tend to equally examine the muscle of a person WHOleads associate idle, inactive life, and indulges in intoxicating drinks, we detect, at once, a pale, flabby, inelastic, oily look. Alcoholic narcotization seems to provide this peculiar conditions of the tissues quite the other agent with that we tend to area unit acquainted with. 'Three-quarters of the chronic health problem that the health care provider has got to treat,' says Dr. Chambers, 'are occasioned by thissickness.' The eminent French analytical chemist, Lecanu, found the maximum amount mutually hundred and seventeen components of fat in one thousand components of a drunkard's blood, the very best estimate of the number in health being eight and one-quartercomponents, whereas the normal amount isn't quite 2 or 3 components, in order that the blood of the sot contains forty times in way over the normal amount." 

Dr. Hammond, WHO has written, in partial defense of alcohol as containing a food power, says: "When I say that it, of all different causes, is most prolific in exciting derangements of the brain, the funiculus and also the nerves, I build an announcement that my very ownexpertise shows to be correct." 

Another eminent medical practitioner says of alcohol: "It substitutes suppuration for growth. It helps time to provide the results of age; and, in a word, is that the genius of degeneration." 

Dr. Monroe, from whom "Alcohol, taken in little quantities, or for the most part diluted, as within the type of brewage, causes the abdomenbit by bit to lose its tone, and makes it dependent upon artificial stimulation. Atony, or need of tone of the abdomen, bit by bit supervenes, and incurable disorder of health results. ought to a dose of alcoholic drink be taken daily, the guts can fairly often become hypertrophied , or enlarged throughout. Indeed, it's painful to witness however several persons are literally drudging underneath sickness of the guts, owing primarily to the utilization of alcoholic liquors." 

Dr. T.K. Chambers, medical practitioner to the blue blood of Wales, says: "Alcohol is basically the foremost ungenerous diet there's. It impoverishes the blood, and there's no surer road to it degeneration of muscular fibre most to be feared; and in cardiopathy it's additionalparticularly hurtful, by quickening the beat, inflicting capillary congestion and irregular circulation, and therefore automatically causationdilatation." 

Sir Henry Thompson, a distinguished operating surgeon, says: "Don't take your daily wine underneath any pretext of its doing you smart. Take it candidly as a luxury one that should be purchased, by some persons terribly gently, by some at a high worth, however forever to be purchased. And, mostly, some loss of health, or of mental power, or of calmness of temper, or of judgment, is that the worth." 

Dr. Charles Jewett says: "The late academic. Parks, of England, in his nice work on Hygiene, has effectually disposed of the notion, long and really usually amused, that alcohol may be a valuable prophylactic wherever a foul climate, dangerous water and different conditions unfavorable to health, exist; associated an unfortunate experiment with the article, within the regular army, on the banks of the Chickahominy, within the year 1863, tried once and for all that, rather than guarding the human constitution against the influence of agencies hostile to health, its use provides to them extra force. The medical record of land army in Asian nation teaches constant lesson."

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