Note 34 — Chapter VII · The Blood and Its Circulation.

“Alcohol taken in small and single doses, acts almost exclusively on the brain and the blood-vessels of the brain, whereas taken in large and repeated doses its chief effects are always nervous effects. The first effects of alcohol on the function of inhibition are to paralyze the controlling nerves, so that the blood-centers are dilated, and more blood is let into the brain. In consequence of this flushing of the brain, its nerve centers are asked to do more work.”—Dr. T. S. Clouston, Medical Superintendent of the Royal Asylum, Edinburgh. “Alcoholic drinks prevent the natural changes going on in the blood, and obstruct the nutritive and reparative functions.”—Professor E. L. Youmans, well-known scientist and author of Class Book of Chemistry.