114 ELEMENTARY PHYSIOLOGY. 



Let us compare its appearance under such conditions 

 as we have it here represented, with its looks when 

 in health, as seen on a previous plate. 



What is the result of a liver thus dis- 

 eased? The answer is two-fold: First, 

 the bile and liver sugar are not properly taken from 

 the blood, and whatever poisonous matter may be 

 contained in the blood which should be removed 

 with the bile must remain in the system, and will 

 certainly prove destructive to health. In the second 

 place, the digestive process is not furnished with 

 the needed bile, and the work of preparing the food 

 will be imperfectly performed. 



The effect of a continued use of alcohol 

 fheKidnry 8 . u P on the kidneys is much like that 

 upon the liver. In the kidneys the 

 blood is constantly being filtered, and the poisonous 

 urea is being taken from it and expelled from the 

 body. If the blood carries alcohol into the cells of 

 these organs they will be irritated, inflamed, and 

 sometimes destroyed. This is known as Brighfs 

 disease, though other causes may lead to the same 

 difficulties and terminate in the same disease. Here 

 we have a view of a very common derangement with 

 drinkers. It is an accumulation of fat about the 

 kidneys, and may prove fatal. 



EFFECTS ON THE NERVOUS SYSTEM. 



Medical authorities tell us that after 



On the Brain. ^ death Qf ft hard drinkerj more a ] co _ 



hol is found in the tissues of the various parts of 



