The Eclectic physiology for use in schoolsVan Antwerp, Bragg, 1884 - 183 pages |
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Page 144 - Such a poison is alcohol ; such, in all its forms, mix it as you may. It is never digested and converted into nourishment.
Page 143 - Alcohol cannot answer any one of those important purposes for which the use of Water is required in the system ; and that, on the other hand, it tends to antagonize many of those purposes, by its power of precipitating most of the organic compounds, whose solution in water is essential to their appropriation by the living body.
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