1 64 GOOD HEALTH 



man did not feel these sores at the time, he would know 

 that they would do him harm and that he would not feel 

 so well later. They would injure his body though he 

 might not know what the matter was. 



When Dr. Beaumont had found out all that he needed 

 to know, he stopped giving alcohol to St. Martin ; where- 

 upon the lining of his stomach grew more healthy every 

 day, until at last, when the doctor looked in one morning, 

 he saw that it was quite well again. 



Afterwards, when he wrote a book about these experi- 

 ments, he said, " The use of ardent spirits always pro- 

 duces disease of the stomach, if persevered in." 



QUESTIONS 



1. Who was Alexis St. Martin? 



2. What happened to him? 



3. What did Dr. Beaumont wish to learn? 



4. How did he make the food experiments ? 



5. What did he decide to find out about alcohol? 



6. Before that time how did any one know what alcohol does to a 

 man's stomach? 



7. When the inside .of St. Martin's stomach was healthy, what was 

 its color? 



8. After taking alcohol awhile, what change was there in the color? 

 Q. What other bad signs did the doctor discover? 



10. What did he say in his book about using alcohol? 



