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MEssRs. EDiroRs: We closed our last arti-
Gle upon the subject Of alcoholic liquors by a
word or two in reference to the effect produced
upon the voluntary muscles. We next say
that the powers Of digestion and nutrition hav-
ing been effectually invaded, the stomach ad-
mits less food than before, and the whole sys-
tenn is but imperfecty supplied with nourish-
ment. Numerous chronic diseases, with me-
lancholy and ma less in their train, put in
their claim for .es.asnce in the decaying or
gans of the body; and when acute forms OF
disease, as I'll acic Inflammation and pestilen-
tial fever ma..a an attack, the work Of ruin,
thus begun and prosecuted by alcohol, is COM
pleted by death. When a person has swal-
lowed suficiency Of this poison to produce
complete drunkenness, there will be manifested
lethargy and stupog pale or flushed face; labo-
rious breathing; extremities almost invariably
cold; pulse feeble and slow; the pupil usually
dilated. Post n,ortem examinations OF bodies
from drunkenness exhibit the following ap-
pearances, viz The blood vessels Of the Brain
are engoregd; turbid serum beneath the arach-
mold membrane; and often turbid or slightly
bloody serum, to the extent OF several ounces,
in the ventrcles. The heart and great vessels
filled with fluid blood; the right side more dis
tended than the left, and sometimes bloody Sc
rum In the pericardium. In the lungs, frothy
mucus may be detected in the air tubes
and cells; and often the lobes will be found
hepatized (made hard.) The stomach will
generally be found in contracted condition,
its walls three or four times their natural thick
ness and indurated; the folds Of Its lining men,
brane sometimes Of deep red color and soft
ened. The Intestines inhamed, thckened,
with softening Of the lining membrane and
liberation; and sometimes adhesion of the in
testines to the other viscera. as the duodenum
and pancreas. The Liver large, uneven, pale,
with fatty degenerations. The Kidneys paIer


than natural, large and fiabby; their cut sur


faces sometimes bloody. The foregoing de-
scriphon Of appearances after death is agreea-
bly, to the experience Of the celebrated DR..


Mussy, who has critically traced the effects Of


alcohol upon the physical system ofman.


ky.