Temperance prize essays / By Drs. Mussey and Lindsly.

Date:
1835
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Credit: Temperance prize essays / By Drs. Mussey and Lindsly. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    * & 26 | EFFECTS ON THE ANIMAL ECONOMY. pass into the blood. In one experiment, less than three minutes were occupied in the passage of a strong watery solution of nux vomica through the coats of the jugular veinofa dog. In the other which M. Magendie found spirit in the blood, there was none detected in the chyle. Spirit, then, may sometimes enter the circula- tion by direct imbibition through the coats of the blood, it unites with its watery part, for which it has a strong affinity, and circulates along with it through every organ, deranging, oppressing, or extinguishing the actions of life. In the brain, when a portion of the watery part of the blood is thrown into the ventricles to relieve the gorged vessels, alcohol is deposited with it; and from its portion of it is deposited along with the thin fluids secreted by the large glands, as the mammary glands, and kidneys; and there can be no doubt of its being exhaled in large quantities from those surfaces, as the skin and. bronchial membrane, from which there is a free transpiration of aque- ous matter, whether in a liquid or eriform state. The inhalation, only, of the vapor of distilled reruns A spirit or of wine, may be carried sO ete far as to produce deep intoxication. cause drunk- Received in this manner, it is proba- nee bly imbibed by the blood in the fine vessels distributed upon the walls of the air cells of the lungs, and then conducted by the route of the circulation to the brain and other distant-or- gans.