Alcohol : its effects upon the organs of the body : being a lecture delivered before the St. John's Branch of the Church of England Men's Society, at St. John's Hall, South Street, Carlisle, on Tuesday, December 7th, 1909 / by H.A. Lediard.
- Lediard, H. A. (Henry Ambrose), 1847-1932.
- Date:
- [1909]
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Alcohol : its effects upon the organs of the body : being a lecture delivered before the St. John's Branch of the Church of England Men's Society, at St. John's Hall, South Street, Carlisle, on Tuesday, December 7th, 1909 / by H.A. Lediard. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![WERE TOO FEEBLE TO HOLD THE BLOOD, BUT HIS A PIT AS STRONG AS GAS PIPES ! This is the vanity of the drinker—the cock-sure gentleman who always knows what he is about and ^ can always stop when he likes, or thinks he can. i Of course the kidneys may go wrong; they may shrivel up and become contracted, so that we doctors call organs by various names, such as a gouty kidney, a gin-drinker’s liver, a hob-nailed liver, etc. I do not want to draw so much from the extreme end of the story as from the early period of alcoholic poisoning. When organs have got out of gear, enlarged, ^ contracted, and so on, a man is usually past doing ) much for, and he can no longer contribute to the j nation’s wealth and prosperity. The early drinker | might perhaps be made to see that his brain, muscles, j stomach, liver, and kidneys, will not do the same J work, nor enable him to earn the same money with ^ alcohol as they will if he leaves it alone altogether. ^ There are differences in stone, there are t differences in wood. .. Red sandstone, so prevalent in the border land, is soft and does not weather very well. There is granite, and also a rock found,in Cornwall called serpentine. Now granite and serpentine are the hardest rocks existing, the sandstones are the softest. J Then take trees. Our fleet was formerly constructed | of oak; mahogany is used for furniture; both are hard woods, perhaps about the hardest, excepting ^ ebony, and the most durable, but the chestnut is, y] despite its picturesqueness, as everyone knows, no use - whatever as a wood. Someone once said : “ the only ' j thing the wood of the chestnut is useful for is to make bread.” All constitutions, all organs and tissues are not alike. Some people are hard, some II](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22426231_0020.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
