Ten Lectures on AlcoholNational Temperance Society, 1880 - 374 pages |
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absinthe abstaining acetic acid action of alcohol agent alco aldehyde amylic alcohol animal body animal temperature argument beer blood brain butylic butylic alcohol called carbonic acid cause centres changes chemical chemist chloroform cohol colloidal combustion common alcohol danger death disease distillation drinkers duced effect of alcohol ether ethylic alcohol evil excitement experiment extreme fact fermentation fibrine fluid fluid ounces flushed function fusel oil gives heart heat hydrogen indulge influence intoxication learned lecture liberty liquors liver living lungs matter medicine membranes ment mental mind minute circulation moderate muscles muscular natural necessity nervous nitrite of amyl observation organs ounces pass passion Passum persons phenomena physical physician physiological produced pure quantity question reason respect Science sense sleep spirit of wine stage of alcoholic stimulant stomach strong drink structure substance sugar sustaining temperance Tetryl tion tissues truth vapor vascular vessels Vino Greco
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Page 44 - We may lay it down as an incontestable axiom that, in all the operations of art and nature, nothing is created ; an equal quantity of matter exists both before and after the experiment...
Page 87 - The period of rest for the heart was shortened, though perhaps not to such an extent as would be inferred from the number of beats; for each contraction was sooner over. " The heart, on the fifth and sixth days after alcohol was left off, and apparently at the time when the last traces of alcohol were eliminated, showed in the sphygmographic tracings signs of unusual feebleness; and perhaps in consequence of this, when the brandy quickened the heart again, the tracings showed a more rapid contraction...
Page 27 - I should do anything on this account to answer your expectation, at the best I should do it doubtingly. And certainly whatsoever is so is not of faith. And whatsoever is not so, whatsoever is not of faith, is sin...
Page 45 - After giving the details of his analysis of sugar and of the products of fermentation, Lavoisier continues: — " The effect of the vinous fermentation upon sugar is thus reduced to the mere separation of its elements into two portions; one part is oxygenated at the expense of the other, so as to form carbonic acid; while the other part, being disoxygenated in favour of the latter, is converted into the combustible substance called alkohol; therefore, if it were possible to re-unite alkohol and carbonic...
Page 152 - ... reduces their functional power. That they may work rapidly and equally, they require to be at all times charged with water to saturation. If, into contact with them, any agent is brought that deprives them of water, then is their work interfered with ; they cease to separate the saline constituents properly ; and, if the evil that is thus started, be allowed to continue, they contract upon their contained matter in whatever organ it may be situated, and condense it. " In brief, under -the prolonged...
Page 87 - The first day of alcohol gave an excess of 4 per cent., and the last of 23 per cent. ; and the mean of these two gives almost the same percentage of excess as the mean of the six days. Admitting that each beat of the heart was as strong during the alcoholic period as in the water period (and it was really more powerful), the heart on the last two days of alcohol was doing one-fifth more work. Adopting the lowest estimate which has been given of the daily work done by the heart, viz., as equal to...
Page 87 - ... tons one foot, and in the last two days did extra work to the amount of 24 tons lifted as far.
Page 92 - In vino veritas" expresses, even indeed to physiological accuracy, the true condition. The reason, the emotions, the instincts, are all in a state of carnival, and in chaotic feebleness. Finally, the action of the alcohol still extending, the superior brain centres are overpowered ; the senses are beclouded, the voluntary muscular prostration is perfected, sensibility is lost, and the body lies a mere log, dead by all but one-fourth, on which alone its life hangs.
Page 171 - ... sometimes modified, by softening or shrinking of its texture, by degeneration of its cellular structure, or by interposition of fatty particles. These deteriorations of cerebral and spinal matter give rise to a series of derangements, which show themselves in the worst forms of nervous disease — epilepsy ; paralysis, local or general ; insanity.
Page 117 - What is the inference ? The inference is that the alcohol is not burned after the manner of a food which supports animal combustion, but that it is decomposed into secondary products, by oxidation, at the expense of the oxygen which ought to be applied for the natural heating of the body.