. The passing of the saloon; an authentic and official presentation of the anti-liquor crusade in America;. - 0 PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL. 65 fere with the beneficent action of the anti-toxins that have developed in thetissues of the body, and in virtue of which the disease has been overcome. Not many physicians, perhaps, will go as far as Dr. Muirhead, ofEdinburgh, who at one time claimed that he had scarcely known of a deathin a case of pneumonia uncomplicated by alcoholism; but almost every phy-sician will admit that he contemplates with increased solicitude every caseof pneumonia th
. The passing of the saloon; an authentic and official presentation of the anti-liquor crusade in America;. - 0 PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL. 65 fere with the beneficent action of the anti-toxins that have developed in thetissues of the body, and in virtue of which the disease has been overcome. Not many physicians, perhaps, will go as far as Dr. Muirhead, ofEdinburgh, who at one time claimed that he had scarcely known of a deathin a case of pneumonia uncomplicated by alcoholism; but almost every phy-sician will admit that he contemplates with increased solicitude every caseof pneumonia thus complicated. Equally potent, seemingly, is alcohol incomplicating that other ever-menacing lung disease, tuberculosis. long ago asserted that inebriety and tuberculosis are practicallyinter-convertible conditions; a view that may be interpreted in the words ofDr. Dickinsons Baillie Lecture: We may conclude, and that confidently,that alcohol promotes tubercle, not because it begets the bacilli, but becauseit impairs the tissues, and makes them ready to yield to the attacks of theparasites
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