es cold, and
in frosty weather readily contracts congestion of the lungs, and
that disease which is known as bronchitis. If the person drinks
to drunkenness his temperature will be found to be from two and
a half to three degrees below the natural standard. It takes
from two to three days, under the most favorable circumstances,
for the animal warmth to become steadily re-established after a
drunken spree.

"The excitement of the mind in the early stages of drunkenness
is not natural; it is exhaustive of the bodily powers, and
exhaustive for no useful purpose whatever. * * * * *

"As nothing has been supplied by the alcohol to keep up the
supply of heat the vital energy is rapidly exhausted, and if the
person is exposed to cold, the exhaustion becomes extreme,
sometimes fatal. All great consumers of alcohol are chillier
during winter than are abstainers, and as they labor under the
delusion that they must take wine or ale or spirits to keep them
warm, they keep on making matters worse by constantly resorting
to their enemy for relief."

Dr. Newell Martin makes this very clear in his physiology, _The Human
Body_.

"Our feeling of being warm depends on the nerves of the skin. We
have no nerves which tell us whether heart or muscles or brain,
are warmer or cooler. These inside parts are always hotter than
the skin, and if blood which has been made hot in them flows in
large quantity to the skin, we feel warmer because the skin is
heated. As alcoholic drinks make more blood flow through the
skin, they often make a man feel warmer. But their actual effect
upon the temperature of the whole body is to lower it. The more
blood that flows through the skin, the more heat is given off
from the body to the air, and the more blood, so cooled, is sent
back to the internal organs. The consequence is that alcohol, in
proportion to the amount taken, cools the body as a whole,
though it may for a time heat the skin."

If other evidence that alcohol is not heat-producing in the body were
necessary it could be found in the fact that the products of combustion
are decreased when it is present in the body. The quantity of carbonic
acid exhaled by the breath is proportionately diminished with the
decline of animal heat.

Arctic explorers learned by experience what science discovered by
experiment. Dr. Hayes, the