s before, yet the waste
caused by the contractions is greater, while the time for rest
after each one is shorter. This lack of rest produces exhaustion
of the heart-muscle, ending in partial change of the muscular
tissue into fat. The heart then becomes flabby and weak and its
walls become thinner, a condition known to physicians as a
'fatty heart,' often resulting in sudden death."--_Tracy's
Physiology_, page 158.

Dr. T. D. Crothers, of Hartford, Conn., has made many observations with
the sphygmograph to learn the effects of alcohol upon the heart. He
says:--

"On general principles, and clinically, the increased activity
and subsequent diminution of the heart's action brings no
medicinal aid or strength to combat disease. This is simply a
reckless waste of force for which there is no compensation.
Without any question or doubt the increased heart's action,
extending over a long period, is dangerous.

"The medicinal damage done by alcohol does not fall exclusively
upon the heart, although this organ may show it more permanently
than others."--_Transactions of Second Annual Meeting of A. M.
T. A._

Dr. I. N. Quimby, of Jersey City, N. J., in an address before the
American Medical Temperance Association, after describing two clinical
cases which ended in death, made the following statement:

"There was nothing so strange about the death of these two
patients, although they both died unexpectedly to the physician
and their friends, but the declaration I am about to make may be
somewhat new and startling, namely: That neither of these
patients, in my candid judgment, died from the effect of
disease, but rather from vasomotor paralysis of the heart,
_superinduced by the administration of the alcohol_, which
brought on a sudden and unexpected collapse and death."

Alcohol causes fatty degeneration of the heart and other muscular
structures. Old age also causes these degenerations, hence alcohol is
said to produce premature aging of the body.

"In fatty degeneration the cells and fibres of the body become
more or less changed into fat. If a muscular fibre undergoes
fatty degeneration, the particles of which it is made disappear
one by one, and particles of oil or fatty matter take their
place, so that the degree or amount of degeneration varies
according to the extent to which this change has