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in the form of alcohol allows this enemy of the corpuscles, which 

 protect him against disease, to enter his system and make its at- 

 tacks? In critical cases of pneumonia or typhoid fever or other 

 disease, physicians regard as favorable the fact that a patient has 

 been an abstainer from the use of alcoholic drinks. 



From "Alcohol and the Human Body." 



EFFECT OF ALCOHOL ON BODY CELLS 



The upper left hand cell is a normal healthy cell. The others are deteriorated cells 

 taken from the spinal cords of habitual drinkers. 



That the red corpuscles of the blood are also affected when 

 they come into contact with alcohol has been proved. When 

 it is recalled that the red corpuscles are the carriers of oxygen to 

 the tissues upon which the production of energy depends, the 

 harmful effect of alcohol in the blood will be readily understood. 



The following, in regard to the effect of small doses of alcohol 

 upon lower forms of animal life, is quoted from Alcohol and the 

 Human Body by Horsley and Sturge : 



