MALT LIQUORS.


 Malt liquors, when of good quality, and drunk in moderation, constitute, for many persons, an innocent and wholesome beverage. Their immoderate use is attend ed, however, with the most injurious con- sequences. They who indulge in malt li- quors to excess, become in general corpu- lent from languid circulation but the fat which accumulates, often to great extent, is very unhealthy. When inflammation attacks such individuals, it is of species which soon runs into mortifcation. In consequence of the languid circulation of the blood, occasioned by the narcotic ef- fccts of the hop, or in sophisticated porter of more deleterious ingredients, the veins become overloaded with blood, particular ly those in the brain--giddinssS and, not unfrequently, in the end, apoplexy is tho consequence. The temperature of the body is below the natural standard-that of the feet and legs is often fiffeen degrees lower than that of the centre of the trunk. When the liquor begins to act injuriously on the stomach, the memory loses its pow CT ofretaining recent impressions; and the inferior limbs, if an accumulation of a wa- tery fluid does not take place beneath the skin, become emaciated and fiabby' When apoplexy does not terminate lie, disease generally takes in the organs sub- servient to digestion, and speedily prove. fatal. If the individual who, like Boniface ss eats, drinks ,and sleeps" upon ale, beer oi uorter. escapes one or other Of the foregO- ! ing nalad:es, he will probably fall sacri. fec to general dropsy, attended with dis. ease of the main artery, or ths vessell which .nourish the heart. He is. in geuer. al, great dreamer. and commonly [" mos superstitioos." When the liquor begins ts have an exhilirating effect, hs fancies h. sees deeper into metaphysics than anj other person and. in proportion as he be comes more stupid, he thinks himself more enlightened.

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