Some of these are thus described: "The perverted condition of the membranous covering of the nerves gives rise to pressure within the sheath of the nerve, and to pain as a consequence.

To the pain thus excited the term neuralgia is commonly applied, or 'tic;' or, if the large nerve running down the thigh be the seat of the pain, 'sciatica.' Sometimes this pain is developed as a toothache.

It is pain commencing, in nearly every instance, at some point where a nerve is inclosed in a bony cavity, or where pressure is easily excited, as at the lower jawbone near the centre of the chin, or at the opening in front of the lower part of the ear, or at the opening over the eyeball in the frontal bone." DEGENERATION OF THE LIVER.
The organic deteriorations which follow the long-continued use of alcoholic drinks are often of a serious and fatal character.

The same author says: "The organ of the body, that, perhaps, the most frequently undergoes structural changes from alcohol, is the _liver_.

The capacity of this organ for holding active substances in its cellular parts, is one of its marked physiological distinctions.