On the Use And Abuse of Alcoholic Liquors in Health And Disease
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And where such is the case, there can scarcely be a question that this system is preferable to the habitual use, however moderate, of fermented liquors. For, if the appetite prompt to the use of an adequate amount of nourishment to repair the waste of the sytem ; if the stomach perform its action with due energy, and supply to the absorbent vessels the material for fresh blood in a state of due preparation ; if the circulation be carried on with that equable regu- larity, which is most favourab...le to the actions to which it is subser- vient; if the various tissues draw from the current of nutritious fluid the materials which they severally require, and apply these materials to their own maintenance and regeneration ; if the lungs freely exhale the carbonic acid which is evolved by their exercise, and introduce the oxygen which is needed for a renewal of the effort; and if the liver, kidneys, and skin, by the constant discharge of their respective offices, eliminate from the blood the other pro- ducts of the waste of the system, and thus keep it in the state of purity most favourable to the discharge of its multitudinous func- tions; — in a word, if all the actions coucerned in the maintenance of the fabric be already discharged with that vigour and uniformity which constitute health, why should we attempt to alter them by means of agents, which, if they produce any effect whatever on the system, can only operate by producing a departure from that perfect balance of the several parts of the nutritive functions which it is so desirable to maintain, and so difficult to restore when perverted '/ Let us examine these questions in more detail.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
And where such is the case, there can scarcely be a question that this system is preferable to the habitual use, however moderate, of fermented liquors. For, if the appetite prompt to the use of an adequate amount of nourishment to repair the waste of the sytem ; if the stomach perform its action with due energy, and supply to the absorbent vessels the material for fresh blood in a state of due preparation ; if the circulation be carried on with that equable regu- larity, which is most favourab...le to the actions to which it is subser- vient; if the various tissues draw from the current of nutritious fluid the materials which they severally require, and apply these materials to their own maintenance and regeneration ; if the lungs freely exhale the carbonic acid which is evolved by their exercise, and introduce the oxygen which is needed for a renewal of the effort; and if the liver, kidneys, and skin, by the constant discharge of their respective offices, eliminate from the blood the other pro- ducts of the waste of the system, and thus keep it in the state of purity most favourable to the discharge of its multitudinous func- tions; — in a word, if all the actions coucerned in the maintenance of the fabric be already discharged with that vigour and uniformity which constitute health, why should we attempt to alter them by means of agents, which, if they produce any effect whatever on the system, can only operate by producing a departure from that perfect balance of the several parts of the nutritive functions which it is so desirable to maintain, and so difficult to restore when perverted '/ Let us examine these questions in more detail.
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