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who are in the daily habit Of swallowing aIco.
holc liquor may receive temporary alleyiation
of the irritated nerves Of the stomach already
enfeebled but instead Of conferring tone or
vigor to that organ il only serves 10 perpe,n-
ate its disease or debility. The experiments
of DR.. Beaumont upon st. Martin, few
years since, illustrates most clearly the iniuri-
GUS effects of this poison on that most impor-
tant organ, the stomach. Ii will be recollected
that the youth, st. Martin, Canadian. re-
ceived severe wound in the abdomen by
which portion of the stomach was laid open.
and SO continued after the inflammation
abated and the wound healed BY this anom-
ally in the usual workings Of nature, the pro-
cess Of digestion and assimilation could be
seen, and DIR. Beaumont travelled about with
the young man, exhibiting the action Of this
organ TO members Of his profession, and other
intelligent persons desirous of promoting sci
ence and the cause OF Temperance. FREQUENT
ly diseased appearances were observed as red
or purple spots upon the lining membrane of
the stomach, from some Of which exuded
small drops Of generous blood; aphthous or
cankery patches upon the same membrane
the gastric fluids, mixed with large propor-
ton of ropy mucus, and muco purulent mat
ter slightly tinged with blood, resembling the
discharge from the bowels in some cases of
dysentary! These evidences of violence were
always traced to the internal exhibition Of spir-
ituous drinks. The plates Of the late Dr. Sew
| all, on the pathological condition of the stom-
ach in confirmed drunkards, and the interme


diate stages of habtual drinkers of spirits. are
quite conclusive proofs of The fatal effects of
alcohol upon the internal system. Dr. Mus
sey remarks in evidence of the directly pois


onous effects of intoxicating drinks upon the
constitution, that men long accustomed 10
| their daily use may be taken off suddenly and
entirely from them. not only without impair
! ing the health, but with certainty of I'M
proving it, He cites the testimony of Mr..
Powers, who in 1926 was agent and keeper of
The PenetenlIary al Auburn, New York. Mr.


2. states, that during several years residence
in that Institution, he had never known an in
divldual whose health had not been benefited
by the total abstraction Of spirits and every
other sllmnlant drink and narcotic from his
| diet. When II IS taken into account that seven
eights of those convicted Of crime are habitual
toperS and drunkards. and that the statement
ol MIR. overs is only in accordance with thos
IN similar position in other u our large Pen
lienIiares, il should be made to Impress the
mind with more than ordinary weight Mr.
p. farther states, that although much uneas,-
HCo5 ID Usually ltlt Dg iHe IHFUIldte IOT II lew
days after their usual dlams have been inle-
dicted, YET in every Instance a healthy rea.l on
has taken place. and the improvement IA
health and animal spirits remarkable. Abo t
six hundred Was the average number in The
prison whilst he keeper, and he SAYS he
| never saw SO healthy body oi persons
these convicts when assembled for Divine er-
vice. x Y.


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