Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-08-30
ALCOHOL.
What Dr. Gregory has Found in Twenty Five Years Practice in tue .Ut S.--- Aicohol---How Made-7-its
 Effects on the Human
 Organism, Etc.

brandy has fifty-fiYe to sixty per cent.
 inc from five to twenty per. cent, bee . from thee to eight per cent, while laA va porter are much stronger. They lle ;' harmful according to the alcoho ire all tain. Alcohol is always produc hey col Nfld decay. 1t originates in tht 1i death aa or rotting vegetable matter IeconpoSit- production needs warmth iha Tor lts ttss, In the fermentation 'iigar ana li4 ilois eeh Is changed to sugal and this to alcohol. >s If o,ooboI ara to 1,t
 The legitimate ust ,Iand chemical arts Foundin the mechanic. ,,'lrt 4i,ot 11,,, ~ ard there are those wi, ta,v s'su '--fte r. ;s oi in these they are unnec, Hl3 41,at ,,,,,- ways injurious to man. 1 'ie f. e4--' lti'+i, is the only animal that desi. an. tny 4o, pslto, drink than water i find also. niap .s ' e.Ii is the only drink that quencL S. s'ntsI The desire for other drink Is al e'e' -ai- -'-'I, Alcohol is not food It does not WpPtl salts. albumen, casino. fibrin, nor an .t el the substances which go to build up ao body. It goes in as alcohol and IS ellmin ated as alcohol. It therefore can not De a food. On the contrary 1t Is under all a poison, and a poison whose effects are cumulative. If taken contlnu- ally, even in small doses, 1t produces de- cay and leads to paralysis, and tends to- ward death It is all the more injurious because it works so insldiously that It's evil conseouences are often not recognlz- ed, either by the victim or his friends, un- til they are beyond repair.
 It saturates every tissue-the stomach, the spleen, the kidneys, the spinal cord, the lungs and the brain are all engorged with blood by its paralyzing effects and influence upon the nerves which govern the size and tonicity of the capilaries After a time these changes, which are at first temporary, become permanent and in curable diseases of these organs ensue.
 Alcohol prevents the red corpuscles taking up oxygen, and as a consequence the lungs are affected. The delicate mem- branes of the lungs are also hardened, so that osmosis Is interfered with, and from this two-fold cause, the carbonic acid gas is retained iii the air cells, and returned to the system to poison it.
 Every organ of the body is wrapped in a membrane The bones have their peri ositum, the muscles their perimysium, the intestines are folded in 8 membrane called the peritonium, the brain is wrapped in membranes and so too is each minute cell and tibrill9e of the body. Most of these membranes are filters through which the nourishment must pass to reach the tis- sues. To work perfectly they should be charged with water, Alcohol lays his destroying hand upon those delicate membranes and abstracts the water and they become thick and hard so that the nourishing part of the blood can not til- ter through to reach the tissues, or they become too porous and allow the precious fluids of the body to leak out and be cast away, thus depriving the system not only of health, but, little by little, of life itself The whole repair and growth of the body depends upon the integrity of the mem branes. If they are too thick, they become loaded with foreign material and prevent repair, if too porous the fluids may accum- ulate in the closed cavities and dropsy be the result.
 The engagementof of the cutaneous capil- laries gives feeling of warmth, but there is no actual increase of bodily heat. On the contrary, the heat radiating from the surface creates cooler condition of the internal organs. This is demonstrated by the thermometer. which shows that i'll the various stages of intoxication there is a continualfall of bodily heat from one to three degrees It takes three or four times as long to regain the normal heat as it did to lose 1t, therefore, there is a chilly feeling in getting oyer the effects of alcoholic poisoning called intoxieation.
 The statement that alcohol cheeks waste it true.
 We have already said that it does not permit carbonic acid gas to be sent off through the air cells, but compels 1t to be retained in the system to poison it. It hardens the membranes so that they will not allow albuminous material to pass for nourishment of the tissues, nor the waste matter to pass out from the tissues so that the body is filled with waste ma terial which Is wrongly called fat. All the processes of life are full of change and anything that interferes with-this change Is injurious because 1t interferes with vital action. To check the ordinary waste of the system IS tQ tie the body to its own corpse. Alcohol is not food as some have said, for it diminishes nutrition.
 It apparently increases digestion by in ducing a superficial congestion of the mucous membrane of the stomach and a dilation of the arterioles which will ulti- mately produce gastric catarrh.
 The delicate membranes of the nerves do not escape the shrivehng touch of al cohol, but are deprived of their moisture and becoming hard and shrunken, press on the nerves causing neuralgia pains The power of the nerves to tranmit mes sages to the brain Is lost and deadly in jury may be done to part Of the kody without the man being aware of 1t at the time. Men under the influence of alcoho are frozen because their nerves do 'not warn them of it or their danger and also because the brain can not control the work ing Of the limbs. The brain is no longel governor. The brain itself is partially destroyed by alcohol. All the principles of which brain matter is composed (witl
 the exception of the albuminous frame
 work are soluble in warm alcohol ap( the framework becomes hardened so tha i the brain of a thinker not only actuall, l decreases in size but becomes hardened il l consistency,
 The following are few of the disease ] caused by alcohol: Inflammation of tn, | stomach, congestion of the liver. diabetes l inflammation and palpitation and fatty de
 generation of the heart ,gout, premature ol, ' age, irritable temper, indecision. coward l ice, pneumonia, asthma, pleurlsy, atroph
 of the liver, fatty degeneration of kidneyes
 dropsy, Brights disease, consumption
 sleeplessness, epilepsy, neuralgia, paraly
 sis, delirium tremens, moral perversior
 softening of brain, idiocy, insanity an,
 madness
 I find that alcohol does not increas mans strength and working ability Meu who train as athletes have learne, that they must avoid alcohol of every clas if they would succeed.
 I find that under all circumstances me can endure more exposure, heat, cold an
 keep ip better health and soiind jadgmen
 when not using alcohol, than they ca
 who use it, even ever so moderately.
 In shipwrecks, in Arctic explorations, i
 long continued exhausting lahors the aJ
 vantage is always ip favor of them tha
 do not use it. 1 find that rheumatis1 1 and other difficulties which are produce
 by alcohol can often be cured by totall
 abstainipg from it without giving an
 other remedies, l find that even mode
 ate drinkers are more susceptible to th
 influences of epidemics. In Hermosill,
 Sonora. Mexico, in time of the perniciou
 bilious remittent fever, every drinkin
 man died who took the disease Tiflis,
 city of twenty thousand inhabitants, ill a epidemic of cholera every drunkard die,
 find that drinking men are never so SUI to recover from surgical operations as al
 stainers are. I find that men who do n, use it in any form are much less atfepte . by change of lllmata than are those VI ; are addicted to it and are not subject . the dangerous and troublesome diseas ) which affect the drinking man. 1 fr