e is produced
in just the proper amount for the uses for which it is intended,
so that it is all disposed of in the organism, and does not pass
off by the kidneys. If any cause interrupts the processes by
which the sugar is consumed, while its manufacture goes on
normally, there will come to be an over-supply of sugar in the
blood, which, when it reaches 3 parts to 1,000 of the blood,
will begin to pass off by the kidneys and appear in the urine.
On the other hand, if an undue amount of it is formed, the
consumption remaining normal, it will also accumulate in the
circulation, and be eliminated by the kidneys. In either case we
have diabetes, the sugar irritating and diseasing the kidneys as
it passes."

Dr. Harley, of the Royal Society of London, has made the subject of
alcohol and diabetes matter for considerable study. He says a small
quantity only of alcohol injected into the portal (liver) circulation of
healthy animals will cause diabetic urine.

"If any one doubt the truth of the assertion that alcohol causes
diabetes, let him select a case of that form of the disease
arising from excessive formation, and after having carefully
estimated the daily amount of sugar eliminated by the patient,
allow him to drink a few glasses of wine, and watch the result.
He will soon find the ingestion of the liquor is followed by an
increase of sugar. If alcoholics increase the amount of
saccharine matter in the urine of the diabetic, we can easily
understand how their excessive use may induce the disease in
individuals _predisposed_ to it."--DR. HARLEY.

Some physicians claim that in jaundice and certain other bilious
disorders even medicines prepared in alcohol are decidedly prejudicial
and aggravating.

Dr. J. H. Kellogg, and other writers draw attention to the effects of
alcohol in hindering the liver in its duty of destroying the toxic
substances generated within the system of a sick person by the specific
microbes to which the disease owes its origin, saying that the activity
of the liver in destroying these poisons is one of the physiologic
processes which stand between the patient and death.

The more this question is studied the more apparent is it that, other
things being equal, the sick person who is cared for by a non-alcoholic
physician has a much better chance of recovery than the one dosed by "a
brandy doctor."

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