In fact, unlike a true food which quickly satisfies, the use of alcohol too often creates an appetite that grows by what it feeds on, and is never satisfied.

For every natural appetite or instinct, nature provides a check; but she provides none for tastes that must be acquired.

The last man to find out that he is taking too much is the drinker himself.

Taken first to relieve discomfort, its own poisonous after-effects create a new and permanent demand for it.
The third point on which agreement is almost unanimous among scientists and physicians is that, as will be seen in later chapters, there are a considerable number of diseases of the liver, of the heart and blood vessels, of the kidneys, and of the nervous system, which are produced by, or almost always associated with, alcohol.

There are, for instance, three different kinds of alcoholic insanity.