The bases of the temperance reform: an exposition and appeal./ With replies to numerous objections. By Rev. Dawson Burns.

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stress on the iact "that it is not the miere excess of
alcohol which the system cannot profitably use up that
finds its way into the excretions; for they detected alcohol in the urine of a man. within half an hour after he
had taken no more than 30 grammes (463 grains) of
braindy; and the ingestion of only a litre, or ordinary
bottle of weakl wine, gave rise to a continued elimination
of alcohol by the lungs during eight hours, and by the
kidneys during fourteen hours. A very striking proof
of the length of time during which alcohol remains unmodified in the system, after being ingested in any considerable amount, is afforded by the fact that it was found
in abundance in the brains, liver, and blood of a vigorous
man, who died of the remote results of alcoholic poisoning, thirty-two hours after drinking a litre of brandy,
notwithstanding the early use of emetics and other remoedial means." The reszuze of the French writers is, literally translated, as follows:
A. Alcohol, taken into the stomach, applied by the
skin, or inhaled by the lungs, is absorbed by the veins,
and carried on by the blood into all the tissues.
B. The reception of alcohol causes, in animals, an intoxication which declares itself by a progressive series
of functional disorders and alterations, whose intensity
is in proportion to the quantity of alcohol absorbed.
C. It shows itself first in a general excitement; respiration and circulation are quickened; the temperature
of the body is increased; afterwards, the respiration and
circulation become slower, and the temperature falls.
D. Muscular power becomes enfeebled, and ultimately
extinct; the loss commencing always in the posterior
extremities.
E. Insensibility extends gradually from the circumference to the centre. The sensibility and motive power of
the spinal cord and nervous trunks are abolished; mechanical irritation of these parts evokes no sign of
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