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the laborer, and those who excessively exert their physical 

 system, have unnatural longings for something to restore 

 the exhausted energies of mind and body. 



" The excessive worry of one man, the exhausting ex- 

 cesses of another, and the overwork of others, lead to 

 organic lesions and nervous defects, and the disease 

 inebriety, an ungovernable craving for alcoholic drinks, is 

 the result." 



Dr. Crothers, author of Diseases of Inebriety, says, " I 

 have often been made impatient in listening to the lecturer 

 presenting the ' scientific aspects of the alcohol question ' 

 to an audience, to see him illustrate extensively with 

 charts, and spend hours to show the effects of alcohol 

 upon the coats of the stomach, and upon the structure of 

 the liver and the kidneys, and never allude once to the 

 brain; when the fact is, alcohol's principal effect is upon 

 this organ, and the functions of this organ so far transcend 

 the functions of all the others, that I might say, there is 

 no comparison." 



MORAL DETERIORATION PRODUCED BY ALCOHOL. 



[PROFESSOR H. NEWELL MARTIN.] 



" One result of a single dose of alcohol is that the con- 

 trol of the will over the actions and emotions is temporarily 

 enfeebled ; the slightly tipsy man laughs and talks loudly, 

 says and does rash things, is enraged or delighted without 

 due cause. If the amount of alcohol be increased, further 

 diminution of will power is indicated by loss of control 

 over the muscles. Excessive habitual use of alcohol 

 results in permanent overexcitement of the emotional 

 nature, and enfeeblement of the will ; the man's highly 

 emotional state exposes him to special temptations, to 



