the stomach.

"(b) Injures the mucous lining by hardening the tissues.

"(c) It destroys some of the small glands and impairs others.

"(d) It precipitates the pepsin of the gastric juice, thus retarding
digestion.

"(e) It thickens the mucus of the stomach.

"(f) The action of the stomach is at first quickened by the presence
of alcohol, and then retarded."

IV "The effects of alcohol upon the liver may be:

"(a) It produces a hardened condition of its tissues.

"(b) Enlarges the organ.

"(c) Compresses and lessens the cells for producing bile.

"(d) Stimulates the liver to overaction, thus reducing the bile supply.

"(e) It weakens and destroys the usefulness of this organ of digestion."

V "Effect of alcohol upon the blood and blood-vessels:

"(a) It thins and coagulates the blood according to the amount of
alcohol.

"(b) It hastens the circulation, thus weakening it.

"(c) It prevents combustion.

"(d) It impairs and destroys the corpuscles, thus affecting their
powers of transporting oxygen and carbonic acid gas.

"(e) It weakens the arterial muscles by affecting the nerves governing
them."

VI "Effects of alcohol upon the brain and nerves are:

"(a) It causes apoplexy and epilepsy by confusing the brain.

"(b) It weakens the will and deadens the feelings.

"(c) It hardens the brain tissues, producing dullness, insensibility,
and insanity.

"(d) It destroys the nerve fiber of the brain.

"(e) It temporarily stimulates and finally depresses this organ.

"(f) It will at last destroy man, body and soul."

"Alcohol leads every other drug in its far-reaching influence for
mischief and evil. Were the thousands of ruined homes, the untold
numbers of blasted lives, the sorrows, the sins, numberless crimes,
murders, and deaths brought in panoramic review before us, what a
hell-born picture it would be!"

"The effect of alcohol upon the morals is awful. All delicacy, courtesy,
and self-respect are gone; the sense of justice and right is faint or
quite extinct. There is no vice into which the victim of drunkenness
does not easily slide; and no crime from which he can be expected to
refrain. Between this condition and insanity there is but a single
step."

These are only a part of the many evils that come to the one who takes
alcohol into his system. We have already heard something about the
effects of ni