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Action of Alcohol On Internal Organs

Action  on  the  stomach.
Congestion  of  the  lungs.
The action of alcohol on the stomach is
extremely dangerous that it becomes unable toAlcohol relaxes the vessels of the lungs
produce the natural digestive fluid ineasily as they are most exposed to the
sufficient quantity and also fails to absorbfluctuations of heat and cold. When subjected
the food which it may imperfectly digest. Ato the effects of a rapid variation in
condition marked by the sense of nauseaatmospheric temperature, they get readily
emptiness, prostration and distention willcongested. During severe winter seasons, the
always be faced by an alcoholic. This resultssuddenly fatal congestions of lungs easily
in a loathing for food and is teased with aaffects  an  alcoholic.
craving for more drink. Thus there is
engendered a permanent disorder which isAlcohol  weakens  the  heart.
called dyspepsia. The disastrous forms of
confirmed indigestion originate by thisConsumption of alcohol greatly affects the
practice.heart. The quality of the membraneous
structures which cover and line the heart
How  the  liver  gets  affected.changes and are thickened, become
cartilaginous or calcareous. Then the valves
The organic deteriorations caused by thelose their suppleness and what is termed
continued use of alcohol are often of a fatalvalvular disorder becomes permanent. The
character. The organ which most frequentlystructure of the the coats of the great
undergoes structural changes from alcohol, isblood-vessel leading from the heart share in
the liver. Normally, the liver has thethe same changes of structure so that the
capacity to hold active substances in itsvessel loses its elasticity and its power to
cellular parts. In instances of poisoning byfeed the heart by the recoil from its
various poisonous compounds, we analyse liverdistention, after the heart, by its stroke,
as if it were the central depot of thehas  filled  it  with  blood.
foreign matter. It is practically the same in
respect to alcohol. The liver of an alcoholicAgain, the muscular structure of the heart
is never free from the influence of alcoholfails owing to degenerative changes in its
and it is too often saturated with it. Thetissue. The elements of the muscular fibre
minute membranous or capsular structure ofare replaced by fatty cells or, if not so
the liver gets affected, preventing properreplaced, are themselves transferred into a
dialysis and free secretion. The livermodified muscular texture in which the power
becomes large due to the dilatation of itsof  contraction  is  greatly  reduced.
vessels, the surcharge of fluid matter and
the thickening of tissue. This followsThose who suffer from these organic
contraction of membrane and shrinking of thedeteriorations of the central and governing
whole organ in its cellular parts. Then theorgan of the circulation of the blood learn
lower parts of the alcoholic becomesthe fact so insidiously, it hardly breaks
dropsical owing to the obstruction offered toupon them until the mischief is far advanced.
the returning blood by the veins. TheThey are conscious of a central failure of
structure of the liver may be charged withpower from slight causes such as
fatty cells and undergo what is technicallyoverexertion, trouble, broken rest or too
designated  'fatty  liver'.long abstinence from food. They feel what
they call a 'sinking' but they know that wine
How  the  Kidneys  deteriorate.or some other stimulant will at once relieve
the sensation. Thus they seek to relieve it
The Kidneys also suffer due to the excessiveuntil at last they discover that the remedy
consumption of alcohol. The vessels offails. The jaded, overworked, faithful heart
Kidneys lose elasticity and power ofwill bear no more. it has run its course and
contraction. The minute structures in them gothe governor of the blood-streams broken. The
through fatty modification. Albumin from thecurrent either overflows into the tissues
blood easily passes through their membranes.gradually damming up the courses or under
This results in the body losing its power assome slight shock or excess of motion ceases
if  it were being run out of blood gradually.wholly at the centre.



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