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

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cerebral substance, I.34; in the substance of the liver,
1.4S. The muscular, cellular, and other tissues retain a
portion of alcohol very inferior to that which is found in
the blood.
N. Alcohol, diluted and injected into the veins, produces the same phenomena as alcohol taken into the
stomach; but they succeed each other more rapidly, and
the animal succumbs in twenty minutes.
O. Alcohol, injected into the veins, spreads itself over
all the tissues, but accumulates in the brain in a considerably larger proportion than in the liver, contrary to what
takes place when it is administered by the stomach. This
altered proportion is indicated by the following figures: In
the blood, I; in the substance of the brain, 3; in the liver,
I.75.
P. Death by alcoholic intoxication is due primarily to
the special action which the alcohol exerts upon the cerebro-spinal nervous system.
Q. After the reception of a feeble dose of alcohol-say,
twenty or thirty grammes of brandy-the blood, during
several hours, contains alcohol, the presence of which can
be demonstrated by tests.
R. During life, and after death, we do not find, either
in the blood or in the tissues, any of the oxygenated
derivatives of alcohol-such as aldehyde, acetic acid,
etc.
S. The stomach, and the stomach only, contains a small
quantity of acetic acid, formed at the expense of the ingested alcohol, by the action of the gastric juice, which
operates in this case as a ferment.
T. The alcohol is rejected from the economy by different
sources of elimination-by the lungs, by the skin, and by
the kidneys. It is easy to recover the alcohol, in appreciable quantity, by distillation of the urine.
U. These sources of elimination reject the alcohol, not
only after the ingestion of a considerable quantity of the
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