Elementary Anatomy, Physiology and Hygiene: For Higher Grammar GradesAmerican Book Company, 1900 - 273 pages |
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Page 158 - A party of engineers were surveying in the Sierra Nevadas. They camped at a great height above the sea level where the air was very cold, and they were chilled and uncomfortable. Some of them drank a little whisky, and felt less uncomfortable ; some of them drank a lot of whisky, and went to bed feeling very jolly and comfortable indeed. But in the morning the men who had not taken any whisky got up...
Page 213 - The healthy mind stands in clear and normal relations with nature. It feels pain as pain. It feels action as pleasure. The drug which conceals pain or gives false pleasure when pleasure does not exist forces a lie upon the nervous system. The drug which disposes to reverie rather than to work, which makes us feel well when we are not well, destroys the sanity of life. All stimulants, narcotics, tonics, which affect the nervous system in whatever way, reduce the truthfulness of sensation, thought,...
Page 225 - In connection with the sanitation of armies, thousands of experiments upon large bodies of men have been made, and have led to the result that in peace and war, in every climate, in heat, cold, and rain, soldiers are better able to endure the fatigues of the most exhausting marches when they are not allowed any alcohol.
Page 144 - To circulate the blood round the body" or (in more detail) "To convey oxygen from the lungs to the tissues and carbon dioxide from the tissues to the lungs...
Page 214 - The more purely intellectual qualities of the mind rarely escape being involved in the general disturbance. The power of application, of appreciating the bearing of facts, of drawing distinctions, of exercising the judgment aright, and even of comprehension, are all more or less impaired. The sense of right and justice which the individual may have had is so weakened or destroyed that he will lie, steal, murder, or commit other outrages, even when there is no provocation.
Page 215 - The stimulating action which alcohol appears to exert on the brain functions is only a paralytic action. The cerebral functions which are first interfered with are the power of clear judgment and reason.
Page 226 - To-day it is a great feather in the headgear of the advocates of military total abstinence that Lord Kitchener's recent victory was won for him by an army of teetotalers, who made phenomenal forced marches through the desert, under a burning sun, and in a climate famed for its power to kill or prematurely age the unacclimated. Indeed, it is said that never has there been a British campaign occasioning so little sickness and profiting by so much endurance.
Page 158 - But in the morning the men who had not taken any whisky got up in good condition; those who had taken a little whisky got up feeling very miserable; the men who had taken a lot of whisky did not get up at all; they were simply frozen to death. They had warmed the surface of their bodies at the expense of their internal organs.
Page 96 - Such a conclusion would be hardly less logical than the conclusions that have been drawn from these experiments with alcohol, and which regard it as a useful food for the body. Gunpowder is a very unsafe fuel because of its secondary effects, and in the same way the food value of alcohol...
Page 159 - Alcohol is a frequent cause of consumption by its power of weakening the lungs. Every year we see patients who attend the hospitals for alcoholism come back some months later suffering from consumption. Fathers and mothers who drink often have children who are deformed or idiots or who die from epilepsia.