The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1876-03-31
Mysterious workings of A1eoh0Ele s. ssa-
EITamtss

Repic,c is an exhaustive and caFa
written paper upon The Physolog zeal
Influence of Alcohol. e iscaaizs and
1 scientific. not emotional, but crowded
with facts and information. According
to this article, when spiritnors drink
is taken into the body it does not siFn-
pIy, run through the digestive tzivaty of
tie body, but it runs throngh the blood
before it can find any esca pc, and nlisigs
to that blood for q eUilsiderAbl& period
i flowing with it round and ronnd thk9agh
q the circling stream of its increasing pFog-
Tess. It goes everywhere, N each lEssFs,
membrane and tissue, and fills ard saesls
rates each vital orgaR---fipshs hsain,
4 heart, liver, lung, kidney skin asld aes
i should be blood uiH1or sthe uEAl1Ess 7, - !
rangements of life, there IS HOW bleed
mingled with the alcoholie spirit.
4 Articles of food are Complex. bod
les. built up from simpler clements by
the effort Of vegetable liIe.' Alcohol
is not such complex prinCiple. The
foods which furnish substance to the
i living structures are, for tie most paFss
composed with the aid Of nitFOgeny and
have therefore an affinity with the Wit
al parts of the human structure. - Tie
fibrin ofthe blood, and nusculaf flesh,
. the cartilages and teBdons, the meln-s
branes and the skin, and soft neFve-pulf,I
and the brain, are all so many examples
of nitrogenized matter.D Bat a1cohel
is entirely devoid of nitrogen ii any
form. In the exceptional cases where
; alcohol has been found useful as med
: iciiie, an unnatural condition Of the body
! exists, and physicians should deteamine
when stimulauts as medicine are NEE
9 essary.
The parts of the body which possess
$ tie most energetic vitality, the brain,
the nerves and the nervous material OF
! the spinal cord, are principally cotnpos-
: ed of the most pulpy consistence, so
! soft that it may be almost termed melt
ing. This nerve-pulp IS packed siHtD
] minute filmy sacks and Tubes discern
: able only by microscopic aid. Through
these tiny and almost invisible films the
J, blood is sfiltered.o The nerye-pu.p p
0 appropriates such qualities Of the blootl
as nourish life and build up the struct-
r ure, and at the same time they reject
J. and throw back into the stream their
own waste parties. Large quantities
} OF water enter into the composition ol
= this puipy matter, and the first evil et.
feet Of alcohol is an su.ieoiltrc liable I'M.
/" pulse'' to draw water. isaEas itsalf. Ex.
G cessive use of alcohol haldanss and dries
up the nerve pulp in such way as tC
- impair If not spoil It for its proper z5i::
h fec. When excessive drinking d0el
: not produce intoxieation it Is. becauss
IN the nerve-pulp has become irsensihle al
)! an 'toiied silk''
s The flushed face upon the approach
d sot inebriation is among the earliest signl
re of the disturbance of these delicate I'D
terers" IN their work, the face being
IN among the parts ofsthe body exception
ally supplied with blood Thess RESTRAIN
I'd ing" or filtering work OF the pulpF sub
5. stance is impaired, and hence titea.tnat
re ural reception OF blood into tie pnlp
as cells. Ifthis unnatural proccss 3 re
peated, or becomes habiC,tal, The hlolch
tt ed, red, swoolcu orspirnpled iase IS fh'
as result OF keeping tue nerve pulp saiIsFat
so ed with alcohol, and tlle dnlIcate mem
,h branes, dried and dyed red, shov
through the skin.
IS The first stages of istcxication ar,
shown III the want of command owe
mt the lower lip~and lower limbs. Tn
nerve pulp OF the spinal cord Is touched
The muscles feel the tofp5z, Trembling
C. and sh,adderang fellow. psssEY
er pulp OF the brain comes Under evil In
ne tiuence, and the control Of the iuda
~ snent and the will disappears When
o. man is what is termed adeaEls drunk,
'ss the paralysis of the higher nerve Ger
'ss 1ers and OF the brain is carried to il
m fun e.d, All inlets of tha sa,lses Ar