The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1902-07-25

CONDUCTED By MRS. M. L. HOBBS.
Alcohol and Blood.

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is necessary to the building up OF
the whole human structure. 1t gath
ers it from the food, the air, the wa.
ter. The blood cannot build up theI
body and keep it in repair II the
proper food and drink is withheld
from it, for every part-bone, mus
Gle, brain, nerve, skin, gland and
hair-needs a steady supply OF food
to keep the body alive and we'll.
Now the lungs supply air and the
stomach food and drink. Many parts
of the body lie far away from these
two reservoirs of supplies and theI
blood is the medium between the
organs OF supply and the different
parts Of the body.
The blood is composed OF water,
plasma, fbrin, red and white cor
puscles, alDumen, some fatty mat
ter, little sugar, salt, soda, lime,
iron, sulphur and some other min
erals in small quantities. Thesel
are necessary to the proper maInte
nance Of the body, ard it suffers III
any of these things are withheld.
If any substance is placed within|
the body that prevents the supply
or waste Of the body going on in al
natural way, it thus injuries it and
lays the foundation for weak and
sickly system. :,
These few facts about the blood
will help you to understand more
perfectly the action OF alcohol upon
it. When alcohol is made to enter
the body, by any channel, it quick
ly finds its way into the blood. In
the blood it spreads or diffuses
through the water and is carried all
over the body. The parts OF the
blood on which the alcohol acts
most injuriously are the corpuscles
aud the fibrin.
The corpuscles or ar cells OF the
blood are Of two limos, red and
white. The red ~rvlscles are
round disks. They are SO tiny and
so plentiful that about five million
of them are contained in one droI
of blood. These blood air cells In
passing through the lungs are filled
with oxygen and then carried to al
parts Of the body, where it is given
off in the tissues, combines with the
carbon and produces the heat OF tht
body, then gathers up the carbonlt
acid gas that is produced by the OK
idasion of the body, carries it bach
to the lungs and throws il Oft by th'
breath.
These little disks are irreparably
damaged by alcohol. Their powe
to absorb oxygen from the air il
lessened or wholly destroyed. The,
undergo peculiar process OF shrink
ing, because the water has beef
drawn from them by the alcohol
Thus the process OF oxidation 0
blood and tissue is retarded to al
extreme degree, and the result j
very detrimental to every organ Q
the body. The skin becomes darl
red or purplish; the lungs are al
fected. The kidneys and liver ar
filed WITH fetid matter, muscle
have lost their elasticity, chilli
ness and sensitivsness to cold ex
lists, and impure blood is found i
both veins and arteries, all becaus
the red corpuscles have lost thel
power to carry oxygen.
The white corpuscles are a yer
important force in the blood. The
are larger and much fewer in nun
ber than the red ones, about on
white to every 800 red ones. Thes
little corpuscles are very irregul'
in shape, and have the power
spontaneous movement. They ali
; possess the power to change the
shape, to throw out tinger-like pr
iections, or to lengthen out like
little worm, and 60 creeping abo'
through the finest capillaries al
tissues ,eand 60 back again, by
, new road, into the blovd.
! Now il has been learned by yea
Of patient painstaking investigate
that the white corpuscles destr'
disease germs. They are the pr
tectors Of the body against the
r roads Of disease. They are the iii
a soldiers Of the body and make
/, heroic fight to "save the union
!, When disease germs or some 9th
: substance, as a thorn, enters I
Y body the white corpuscles form
n wall about them and either eat the
r up or cause them TO be expelI
q from the body, as the common p
a lor matter that collects in a ile
v wound This pus that comes aw
q from a sore is made up OF VII
corpuscles. They eat upthe rema
Of the red disk aud other waste "a
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