The school physiology journal . ished,cerebral activity isdiminished, the co-ordinating power ofthe brain is im-paired, muscularstrength is lessen-ed, and digestiveactivity is greatlydecreased.—J. , Alcohol a Causeof Insanity. Not alone in di-rectly producing disease and predisposing the body to the attacksof disease, does alcohol work harm in the body,it is also largely responsible for insanity.—Professor Debove. Alcohol Attacks Higher Nerve Centres. Measurements of the senses before and afterthe use of alcohol show that alcohol in one-ounce doses visibly depresses and lowers se
The school physiology journal . ished,cerebral activity isdiminished, the co-ordinating power ofthe brain is im-paired, muscularstrength is lessen-ed, and digestiveactivity is greatlydecreased.—J. , Alcohol a Causeof Insanity. Not alone in di-rectly producing disease and predisposing the body to the attacksof disease, does alcohol work harm in the body,it is also largely responsible for insanity.—Professor Debove. Alcohol Attacks Higher Nerve Centres. Measurements of the senses before and afterthe use of alcohol show that alcohol in one-ounce doses visibly depresses and lowers senseacuteness and activity. The rapidity of thought,the clearness of memory, the capacity to reason,the power of control by the will, are measur-able by instruments, and all are found to belowered and palsied by alcohol.—[Journal ofInebriety. The brain has an affinity for alcohol whichno other organ possesses, and this condition per-vades the entire nervous system, and producesa complete prostration of its highest and most. important functions. Hence, the mind is im-paired, the will of the individual destroyed, andat last the victim of this malady becomes awandering maniac.—C. H. Shepard, Alcohol no Preventive against Cold. Alcohol, instead of stimulating the heat-regu-lating centres of the body, paralyzes them, inreality hastening death from cold rather thanpreventing it.—Chas. E. Stewart, Alcohol Poisons the Vital Organs. Long continued indulgence in alcohol pro-duces fatty degeneration of blood vessels, heart,liver, and kidneys.— Heinrich Stern, , Alcohol Causes Kidney Disease. The kidneys are among the most important organs of the body,as they separatefrom the blood theproducts of diseaseand worn out ma-terial. This organis frequently over-worked by the con-sumption of alcoho-lic bevereges, there-by losing its powerof separating dele-terious substancesfrom the blood. Inconsequence thekidneys becomediseased. — [Diete-tic and HygienicGazette. T
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