Now, if still more alcohol is taken the whole brain becomes paralyzed, and then the man is so nearly dead that we say he is "dead drunk." It is exceedingly dangerous to become dead drunk, as the brain may be so completely paralyzed that it will not recover.
~6.~ A small amount of alcohol does not make a man dead drunk, but it poisons and paralyzes his brain and nerves just according to the quantity he takes.
~7.~ If a person holds a little alcohol in his mouth for a few moments, the tongue and cheeks feel numb.

This is because the alcohol paralyzes them so that they cannot feel or taste.

When taken into the stomach it has much the same kind of effect upon the nerves of the whole body.
~8.

Alcohol a Deceiver.~--A hungry man takes a drink of whiskey and benumbs the nerves of his stomach so that he does not feel hungry.
Alcohol puts to sleep the sentinels which Nature has set in the body to warn us of danger.

A man who is cold takes alcohol and feels warm, though he is really colder.