324 THE PRESENT EVOLUTION OF MAN — MENTAL 



ALCOHOLIC. NON-ALCOHOLIC. 



More frequent. More frequent. 



Pericarditis less frequent, but Endocarditis and pericar- 

 more often suppurative. ditis. 



Hypertrophy of heart. 



All kinds of cerebral inflam- 

 mation and haemorrhages. 



Eepair slow and unsafe, by Fibrinous exudation and 

 tendency to suppuration adhesive inflammation, 

 and cellulitis. 



Renal changes, 82 cases, con- lienal changes, 83 cases, 

 gested and granular kid- lardaoeous disease, 

 neys. 



" 93. Dr. Dickinson summed up his paper by saying — 

 ' Alcohol causes fatty degeneration and fibroid encroach- 

 ment; it engenders tubercle, encourages suppuration, 

 and retards healing; it produces untimely atheroma, 

 invites haemorrhage, and anticipates age. . . . Alcohol 

 gives an asthenic type to disease . . . it retards adhesive 

 and plastic processes.' 



" 94. In confirmation of these observations the experi- 

 ence of the last Russo-Turkish war may be cited. The 

 Turkish soldiers, though much more poorly clad and 

 fed, recovered from wounds which proved rapidly fatal 

 to the vodka-drinking Russian. This was so marked 

 as to be notorious, and was noted at the time by several 

 newspaper correspondents. 



" We cannot but conclude, therefore, that the dis- 

 appearance of alcohol from popular use would be 

 attended by a considerable improvement in the health 

 of the nation." 



