Our brain, body and nerves / by Andrew Wilson.

  • Wilson, Andrew
Date:
1911
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Credit: Our brain, body and nerves / by Andrew Wilson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    for example, differ materially in character from those contained in other wines or liquors. The proportion of absolute alcohol contained in ordinary beer, for example, will amount to about five per cent., that in clarets and bur- gundies to from ten to twenty per cent., in sherries, which are mostly fortified wines, to about twenty-five per cent., while the stronger . liquors (whisky, brandy, gin, etc.) contain about fifty per cent. We must therefore bear these facts in mind, for the plain reason that if the question of the amount of alcohol arises in our considerations we have to take into account the special form in which the alcohol is consumed. No question can arise of the evil effects of alcoholic excess. It acts as a subtle poison attacking the nervous system especially, and also inflicting grievous injury on the liver and other organs. It breaks down that self- control which is the glory of the civilised man, and abolishes the power of inhibition that represents the fullest outcome of our will enabling us to guide our lives aright. These things are matters of no dispute, but there lies beyond them the chief question, which is a purely scientific one, of the effects of alcohol
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