A larger amount of warm blood is brought from the inside of the body to the outside, where it is cooled very rapidly; and thus the body loses heat, instead of gaining it, under the influence of alcohol.

This is not true of any proper food substance.
~30.

Alcohol in the Polar Regions.~--Experience teaches the same thing as science respecting the effect of alcohol.

Captain Ross, Dr.Kane, Captain Parry, Captain Hall, Lieutenant Greely, and many other famous explorers who have spent long months amid the ice and snow and intense cold of the countries near the North Pole, all say that alcohol does not warm a man when he is cold, and does not keep him from getting cold.
Indeed, alcohol is considered so dangerous in these cold regions that no Arctic explorer at the present time could be induced to use it.

The Hudson Bay Company do not allow the men who work for them to use any kind of alcoholic liquors.