HOW ALCOHOL RETARDS DIGESTION.

And here, so as to administer those that aren’t acquainted with, the process of digestion, a clear plan of that necessary operation, and therefore the effect made when alcohol is taken with food, we tend to quote from the lecture of an English physician, Dr. Henry Monroe, on “The Physiological Action of Alcohol.” He says:
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HOW ALCOHOL CAUSES MENTAL AND MORAL CHANGES.

The reworking power or alcohol is marvelous, and typically appalling. It seems to open a approach of entrance into the soul for all categories of foolish, insane or malignant spirits, who, therefore long because it remains in-tuned with the brain, are ready to hold possession. Men of the kindest nature when sober, act often like [...]

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HOW ALCOHOL AFFECTS THE BRAIN.

I once had the unusual, though unhappy, chance of observing the same phenomenon in the brain structure of a man, who, in a paroxysm of alcoholic excitement, decapitated himself below the wheel of a railway carriage, and whose brain was instantaneously evolved from the skull by the crash. The brain itself, entire, was before me [...]

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