patient, and should not be withheld
as they are in so many cases. Dr. J. H. Kellogg, and other
non-alcoholic physicians, recommend them highly. They are better than
milk, as milk frequently produces "feverishness," while fruit juices
allay it.

For those who think beer or ale an incentive to appetite, Dr. N. S.
Davis, and others, recommend an infusion of hops, made fresh each day.
It is the bitter which promotes appetite, not the alcohol. For the sake
of the little bitter in beer, it is not wise to vitiate the tone of the
stomach with the alcohol it contains, and which is its active principle.
Many mothers have become drunkards, secret drunkards, possibly, through
the use of beer as a fancied aid to digestion. Multitudes of men suffer
untold horrors from dyspepsia, caused by the beer which they mistakenly
suppose to be a friend to their stomach.

EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL UPON THE BLOOD.

"The blood is a thick, opaque fluid, varying in color in different parts
of the body from a bright scarlet to a dark purple, or even almost
black." If a drop of blood be placed under a microscope, immense numbers
of small bodies will be seen. These are called blood-globules, or
corpuscles, or discs. There are both red, and white or colorless,
corpuscles. Each red corpuscle is soft and jelly-like. Its chief
constituent, besides water, is a substance called hemoglobin, which has
the power of combining with oxygen when in a place where that gas is
plentiful, and of giving it off again in a region where oxygen is
absent, or present only in small quantity. Hence, as the blood flows
through the lungs, which are constantly supplied with fresh air, its
corpuscles take up oxygen, which, as it flows on, is carried by them to
distant parts of the body where oxygen is deficient, and there given up
to the tissues. This oxygen-carrying is the function of the red
corpuscles.

Hemoglobin, as the coloring-matter of the blood is called, is dark
purplish-red in color; combined with oxygen it is bright "scarlet red."
Accordingly, the blood which flows to the lungs after giving up its
oxygen is dark red in color, its dark color being due to the impurities
it contains; and that which, having received a fresh supply of oxygen,
flows away from the lungs is bright scarlet--having been cleansed of its
impurities. The bright red blood is called _arterial_, and the dark red
_venous_.

The work assigned to the blood in the economy of the human system is:
first,