NATURE OF FERMENTED DRINKS 



and hard, and the fair outside appearance is mainly due to 

 an unnatural deposit of fat in most of the tissues, especially 

 around the heart and kidneys. 



Such a person's physical condition is peculiarly deceptive 

 at first, and is often subject to a sudden collapse at the first 

 touch of disease. The habitual beer drinker is less able 

 to endure an attack of pneumonia, typhoid fever, or heart 

 disease than the total abstainer. 



The president of a leading life- 

 insurance company once said of 

 this class of drinkers : " It was as 

 if the system had been kept fair 

 outside, while within it was eaten 

 to a shell, and at the first touch of 

 disease there was utter collapse : 

 every fiber was poisoned and weak. 

 And this, in its main features, vary- 

 ing of course in degree, has been 

 my observation of beer drinking everywhere. It is pecul- 

 iarly deceptive at first, and it is thoroughly destructive at 

 the last." 



In brief, the practical experience of the leading life- 

 insurance companies teaches them that the habitual beer 

 drinker is a precarious risk. 1 



134. Cider. When the juice is first pressed from apples 

 everybody knows that it is healthful and refreshing, but 



1 This flooding the stomach and brain with beer, so prevalent among our 

 young students ; the habit of drinking between meals, especially during the 

 forenoon ; this daily beer drinking, for hours at a stretch, customary among 

 great numbers of the lower and middle classes in Germany; I regard it 

 all as a national evil, whether considered from the hygienic, economic, or 

 intellectual point of view. PROFESSOR BINZ, of the University of Bonn, 

 Germany. 



FIG. 62. Yeast Cells, found 

 in the Juice of Apples, 

 which cause the Fermen- 

 tation of Cider. 



