Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1829-02-12

through the slineaAry organs through
the luogs. muscles and brain, snd
doubtless through every organ OF ihs
body. Not q blood vessel however
minute, moi athEead of nerve in the
whole animal machine bal feels It's in
iiuenee! Ii disturbs the 70 ,'ians OF life;
II increases, for time, the action oil
living organs, deep depression and
collapse which follow preiernatural ex
eilemeD,. BY habIiual use, it renders
The livirg flores less and less suscep,i
bile to the healthy operation of uns,imu
laling fosd and drink; its exciting III
Huences soon become incorporated
with all che living actions; hunger,
thirst, and exhaustion, are strongly as
soclated with the recollection of ITS ex
biIeraling effects, and thus bring along
with them, he resistless desire for i.s
repetition.
IL evidence required OF its being ab :
So bed, and pervsding The different or
gans of the body?-Approsoh within
few feet of the ram or brandy drinker,
and the odou, OF hi, breath will quick
| ly demonstrate, thst the lungs, loaded
with the foul liquor are dischsYsing it
with all The energy in their power.
! When taken by the nursing mother
It enters into the delicate food prepar
ed By nature for the nourishment and
growth OF helpless infancy. and in hi,
way, rs may most nationally be sup
posed, produces relish for an article
naturally disgusting, and lays thus ear
iy, in some instances. fouodssion Tor
in,emperance in siler life. VIVA, ply
stefan has not known a nursng moth
er give fetfsl child good night's
sleep, by taking heeseisa aose OF bran
dy at bed time.
Other organs than those destined for
the formation Of milk, manifest The pre-
-cnce of this article W ben IT is comhin
ed with peculiar colours; those organs,
ESPECIALLY, which ave bu, as waste
gates TO the system, seen show how
foreign it 10, end Ill sd4pted 10 the seai
waits of The animal ecoDemy, bv
separating it from he blood add taking
1t out oil the general circulation as fssl
as possible.
| The brain, that most delicate and
w0aderful o gan, which forms the r,,s
,er,oas link between the other form.
OF matter and mind, the heaithy tunc
tons Of which are essential 70 Vigorous
intellectual operation, is capable OF i'm
bi5icg alcohol, and having all ito &C
tons suddenly asresied. In poiut. i.
the case Of she man who ives picked
up dead in London, soon after having
drank quar-. OF gin Up . a wager -
He was carried iats the Westminster
hospita, and ihers dissected. "in the
ven.icles Of tina brain was found a
considerable quantity Of linpid Guid.
distinctly inpregnased with ain, both
TO the sense of s,rcii sod taste, ana
given TO the test Of inhamna bility -
Hhe liquid appeared, 10 the senses of
The examioiog s'gdenss, as strong as
one third gin tot~o thirds water
| We know that A lcohol, even when
diluted. by long contact after death.
haEdens the brain, as well as other sof
textures Of The oody which contain al,
humen; and although the vital primo;
pie rnsy enable the brain 20 resist n a
great measure, and for a long time
this effect of alcohol, when brought into
1t from the stomach by the general
circulation, the fact. as alleged by ma
ny, and as am stroagly isduced to
believe from lhe limited means 4 have
had Of observing. via: that the brains
Of dsunkards are literally harder at
death, than those IF the temperate, NAV
be considered in strict accordance
with the effects Of insesnpersnce upon
sns intellectual functions. IL this or
gan be in any degree hardened by the
calculation Of Diluted alcohol through
It's minute and mos, deticately oresulz.
ed parts, ii might well be less suscepti
bic Of those sx9nisitely balanced &C
lions, which we can hardly help be-
lieving to exist in the impressions
made by exc rnai objects and 10 The
variety of combinations of them. pro
duced by tire more abstract and vetis
ed operations Of the mind Tha. a
large proportion of tipplers early dis
| cover snunnatoroi obluseness OF Intel
lec,, and that frequently a mind orisi
nally Qaick and vigorous, becomes
| sluggish and imbesils. need nat he