Perhaps you will ask how do we know that alcohol has such an effect upon the stomach.

More than sixty years ago there lived in Michigan a man named Alexis St.Martin.One day he was, by accident, shot in such a way that a large opening was made right through the skin and flesh and into the stomach.

The good doctor who attended him took such excellent care of him that he got well.

But when he recovered, the hole in his stomach remained, so that the doctor could look in and see just what was going on.

St.Martin sometimes drank whiskey, and when he did, the doctor often looked into his stomach to see what the effect was, and he noticed that the inside of the stomach looked very red and inflamed.
~16.~ If St.Martin continued to drink whiskey for several days, the lining of the stomach looked very red and raw like a sore eye.