It is partly in this way that the brain, nerves, muscles, and other tissues of drinking men and women become diseased.
Eminent physicians tell us that a large share of the unfortunate persons who are shut up in insane asylums are brought there by alcohol.

Is it not a dreadful thing that one's mind should be thus ruined by a useless and harmful practice?
SUMMARY.
1.

Alcohol is produced by fermentation, and obtained by distillation.

It will burn like kerosene oil and other burning fluids.
2.

The vapor of alcohol will burn and will sometimes explode.
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