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First Book in Physiology and Hygiene

CHAPTER XII
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So you see it is dangerous for a person to allow himself to become very angry.
~9.

Effects of Alcohol upon the Blood.~--If you should take a drop of blood upon your finger, and put it under the microscope, and then add a little alcohol to it, you would see that the corpuscles would be quickly destroyed.

In a few seconds they would be so shrivelled up that no one could tell that they had ever been the beautiful little corpuscles which are so necessary to health.

When alcohol is taken as a drink, it does not destroy the corpuscles so quickly, but it injures them so that they are not able to do their work of absorbing and carrying oxygen well.
This is one reason why the faces of men who use alcoholic drinks often look so blue.
~10.

Alcohol Overworks the Heart.~--Dr.Parkes, a very learned English physician, took the pains to observe carefully the effects of alcohol upon the heart of a soldier who was addicted to the use of liquor.


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