ABSTRACT
The action of Alcohol upon the animal body in health is essentially poisonous; producing such a disturbance in the regular current of vital action, as, when a sufficient dose or succession of doses is administered, becomes fatal. The consequences of the habitual excessive use of Alcoholic Liquors, as proved by the experience of the Medical Profession, and generally admitted by Medical writers, are precisely such as the study of its effects in poisonous doses would lead us to anticipate. Various Diseases being thus induced in the organs whose actions are peculiarly liable to derangement from the presence of alcohol in the system. The habitual moderate use of Alcoholic Liquors has a tendency to produce morbid actions in those organs especially acted-on by them, which ultimately manifest themselves in various chronic diseases of advanced life.
