EFFECT OF ALCOHOL ON THE MEMBRANES.
These membranes are the filters of the physique. "Of their absence there may very well be no constructing of construction, no solidification of tissue, nor natural mechanism. Passive themselves, they, nonetheless, separate all buildings into their respective positions and variations."
Membranous deteriorations.
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With a view to make completely clear to your thoughts the motion and use of those membranous expansions, and the best way during which alcohol deteriorates them, and obstructs their work, we quote once more from Dr. Richardson:
"The animal receives from the vegetable world and from the earth the food and drinks it requires for its sustenance and movement. It receives colloidal meals for its muscle tissues: flamable meals for its movement; water for the answer of its numerous components; salt for constructive and different bodily functions. These have all to be organized within the physique; and they're organized by way of the membranous envelopes. By these membranes nothing can move that isn't, for the time, in a state of aqueous answer, like water or soluble salts. Water passes freely by way of them, salts move freely via them, however the constructive matter of the energetic components that's colloidal doesn't go; it's retained in them till it's chemically decomposed into the soluble kind of matter. Once we take for our meals a portion of animal flesh, it's first resolved, in digestion, right into a soluble fluid earlier than it may be absorbed; within the blood it's resolved into the fluid colloidal situation; within the solids it's laid down throughout the membranes into new construction, and when it has performed its half, it's digested once more, if I could so say, right into a crystalloidal soluble substance, able to be carried away and changed by addition of recent matter, then it's dialysed or handed via, the membranes into the blood, and is disposed of within the excretions.
"See, then, what an all-necessary half these membranous buildings play within the animal life. Upon their integrity all of the silent work of the increase of the physique relies upon. If these membranes are rendered too porous, and let loose the colloidal fluids of the blood the albumen, for instance the physique so circumstanced, dies; dies as if it have been slowly bled to dying. If, quite the opposite, they develop into condensed or thickened, or loaded with international materials, then they fail to permit the pure fluids to cross via them. They fail to dialyse, and the result's, both an accumulation of the fluid in a closed cavity, or contraction of the substance inclosed inside the membrane, or dryness of membrane in surfaces that should be freely lubricated and stored aside. In outdated age we see the consequences of modification of membrane naturally induced; we see the fastened joint, the shrunken and feeble muscle, the dimmed eye, the deaf ear, the enfeebled nervous operate.
"It might probably appear, at first sight, that I'm main instantly away from the topic of the secondary motion of alcohol. It's not so. I'm main on to it. Upon all these membranous constructions alcohol exerts a direct perversion of motion. It produces in them a thickening, a shrinking and an inactivity that reduces their useful energy. That they might work quickly and equally, they require to be always charged with water to saturation. If, into contact with them, any agent is introduced that deprives them of water, then is their work interfered with; they stop to separate the saline constituents correctly; and, if the evil that's thus began, be allowed to proceed, they contract upon their contained matter in no matter organ it could be located, and condense it.
"Briefly, underneath the extended affect of alcohol these modifications which occur from it within the blood corpuscles, prolong to the opposite natural components, involving them in structural deteriorations, that are all the time harmful, and are sometimes in the end deadly."
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