ALEXIS ST. MARTIN AND ALCOHOL 163 



opening) and noticed that it was not clear and thin as it 

 was before. It had thick and ropy mucus in it. 



On another day he took out more of the gastric juice 

 and found a little blood in it too. This seemed to come 

 from the sore places. 



At first St. Martin could not tell from his feelings that 

 anything was the matter with his stomach. He simply 

 had to believe Dr. Beaumont, for of course he himself 

 could not stretch his neck far enough over to look through 

 the opening into his own stomach. But after a while 

 he did not feel so well ; he was dizzy and his face had 

 a yellow color. 



Dr. Beaumont tried his experiments over and over 

 again at different times, and in the end he decided 

 two things. 



1. Alcohol made the lining of St. Martin's 

 stomach sore and unhealthy, so that the 

 gastric juice was changed, and after that it 

 could not digest the food so well. 



2. A man's stomach may have sores in it 

 even when the man himself does not know 

 anything about them. This means that a 

 man cannot tell by his feelings what the 

 alcohol is doing to his stomach. 



If any one had the same kind of sores on the outside 

 of his body that St. Martin had in his stomach, he would 

 do all he could to get rid of them ; because, even if a 



