The brain itself, entire, was before me within three minutes after the death.

It exhaled the odor of spirit most distinctly, and its membranes and minute structures were vascular in the extreme.

It looked as if it had been recently injected with vermilion.

The white matter of the cerebrum, studded with red points, could scarcely be distinguished, when it was incised, by its natural whiteness; and the pia-mater, or internal vascular membrane covering the brain, resembled a delicate web of coagulated red blood, so tensely were its fine vessels engorged.
"I should add that this condition extended through both the larger and the smaller brain, the cerebrum and cerebellum, but was not so marked in the medulla or commencing portion of the spinal cord." THE SPINAL CORD AND NERVES.
"The action of alcohol continued beyond the first stage, the function of the spinal cord is influenced.

Through this part of the nervous system we are accustomed, in health, to perform automatic acts of a mechanical kind, which proceed systematically even when we are thinking or speaking on other subjects.