The temperance primer : an elementary lesson book designed to teach the nature and properties of alcoholic liquors, and the action of alcohol on the body / by J. James Ridge.

  • Ridge, J. J. (John James), 1847-1908
Date:
1879
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Credit: The temperance primer : an elementary lesson book designed to teach the nature and properties of alcoholic liquors, and the action of alcohol on the body / by J. James Ridge. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    lie will not be able to move any part of his body, but lies like a log on the ground; he loses all feeling, too, and may not feel the pain even of a broken leg. The Alcohol has gradually imralyscd him, beginning first with the highest and noblest powers of the mind, the control of the thoughts, and the power to judge between right and wrong; next,the control of the passions [the emotions] goes also; then the control of the movements of the body and the power of feeling [the senses] disappear. When he has come to this, he cannot take any more Alcohol: if he could, or if he has taken a great deal all at once, the movements of breathing, which go on even when we are asleep, are paralysed next; last of all the heart also ceases to beat, and the man is dead. In all these cases the Alcohol does not add any power to the man, but disturbs the proper harmony or balance of the powers of the mind, and gradually weakens them from above down- wards.