LIVRO Alcohol and its physiological effect (English Edition) PDF William Patrick

Alcohol seems to have a special affinity for thebrain. This organ absorbs more than any other, and its delicate structureis correspondingly affected. The “Vascular enlargement” here reaches itsheight. The tiny vessels become clogged with blood that is unfitted tonourish, because loaded with carbonic acid, and deprived of the usualquantity of the life-giving oxygen.–HINTON. The brain is, in the languageof the physiologist, malfunctioned. The mind but slowly rallies from thestupor of the fourth stage, and a sense of dullness and depression remainsto show with what difficulty the fatigued organ recovers its normalcondition. So marked is the effect of the narcotic poison, that someauthorities hold that “a once thoroughly intoxicated brain never fullybecomes what it was before.”