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is called moderate quantities, will pave the way for many 

 diseases, some of which are sure to overtake those who 

 have the habit of using drinks with alcohol in them. 



" Examples of the effect of the excessive use of alcoholic 

 drinks are numerous and revolting enough in most com- 

 munities to make the strongest appeals against their use. 



"When it is seen that by the use of alcohol an intelli- 

 gent man may act without reason ; that a kind-hearted 

 man may become brutal to his most loved friends ; that 

 it may cause an honorable man to become a dishonorable 

 one ; that it may make a noble nature become one with the 

 most depraved of tastes ; when its use has over and over 

 again been the cause of disappointment, of intense suffer- 

 ing, and of crime, it would seem that vastly stronger 

 reasons existed against its use 'than the mere fact that 

 some slight changes in the tissues occur which might pos- 

 sibly be demonstrated. It is to avoid these serious results 

 that the use of alcohol is to be shunned, and not simply 

 to avoid a differently shaped liver. 



" The physiological effects of poisons are generally much 

 greater than the visible changes which they produce in 

 the tissues would lead us to expect. Indeed, such effects 

 can seldom be detected by changes seen in the tissue cells. 



" Strychnin produces powerful spasms which end in 

 death. It acts, it is said, on the spinal cord, but it would 

 be hard to show any changes that it produces in the cells. 

 And a knowledge of the changes it produces in the cells 

 could not make us fear the poison any more than we do, 

 who know that it results in suffering and death."-- JENKINS. 



Temperance Drinks. Many well-meaning persons use 

 the various preparations called " root beers," perhaps with- 

 out realizing that most, if not all, contain yeast, and in 



