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but they were not very uncomfortable. Three of the 

 other men drank a little; they were much colder than 

 the first men but they did not freeze. Seven men drank 

 more and their fingers and toes were frostbitten by morn- 

 ing. Six drank a good deal and they were so badly 

 frozen that they never really got well again. Four drank 

 until they were foolish and one after the other they all 

 died three or four weeks afterwards. The last three men 

 were drunk when they went to bed and by morning they 

 were frozen to death. 



Each one of these men was strong the day before, and 

 each had the same number of blankets that night. It 

 seemed to be just the whisky and nothing else that 

 made the difference. 



One of the men in the party wrote to a medical paper 

 in Cincinnati, Ohio, about it, and the point he made 

 was that the more the men drank the more they suffered 

 from the cold. 



A great many people believe as these men believed. 

 They say, " When I am cold and take whisky, I know 

 it is good for me because it makes me feel warm." Per- 

 haps such people will understand what the matter is if 

 we explain just what happens when a man drinks alcohol. 



One of the first things alcohol does if a man takes 

 enough of it is to enlarge the small tubes that carry 

 the blood to the skin all over the body. Now if these 

 blood vessels are enlarged, more blood passes through 



