ACTION OF ALCOHOL ON INTERNAL ORGANS
Action at the stomach.
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The action of alcohol on the stomach
is extremely dangerous that it becomes unable to produce the natural digestive
fluid in sufficient quantity and also fails to absorb the food which it may
imperfectly digest.
A situation marked with the aid of
using the feel of nausea emptiness, prostration and distention will continually
be confronted with the aid of using an alcoholic.
This results in a loathing for food
and is teased with a craving for more drink.
Thus, there is engendered a
permanent disorder, which is called dyspepsia. The disastrous forms of
confirmed indigestion originate by this practice.
How the liver receives affected.
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The organic deterioration caused by
the continued use of alcohol are often of a fatal character. The organ, which
most frequently undergoes structural changes from alcohol, is the liver.
Normally, the liver has the capacity to hold active substances in its cellular
parts. In instances of poisoning by various poisonous compounds, we analyze the
liver as if it were the central depot of the foreign matter. It is practically
the same in respect to alcohol. The liver of an alcoholic is never free from
the influence of alcohol, and it is too often saturated with it. The minute
membranous or capsular structure of the liver gets affected, preventing proper
dialysis and free secretion. The liver becomes large due to the dilatation of
its vessels, the surcharge of fluid matter and the thickening of tissue. This
follows contraction of the membrane and shrinking of the whole organ in its
cellular parts. Then the lower parts of the alcoholic becomes dropsical owing
to the obstruction offered to the returning blood by the veins. The structure
of the liver may be charged with fatty cells and undergo what is technically
designated 'fatty liver'.
How the Kidneys deteriorate.
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The Kidneys also suffer due to the
excessive consumption of alcohol. The vessels of Kidneys lose elasticity and
power of contraction. The minute structures in them go through fatty
modification. Albumin from the blood effortlessly passes via their membranes.
This results in the body losing its power, as if it were being run out of blood
gradually.
Congestion of the lungs.
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Alcohol relaxes the vessels of the
lungs easily as they are most exposed to the fluctuations of heat and cold.
When subjected to the effects of a rapid variation in atmospheric temperature,
they get readily congested. During severe winter seasons, the suddenly fatal
congestions of lungs easily affects an alcoholic.
Alcohol weakens the heart.
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Consumption of alcohol significantly
impacts the heart. The quality of the membranous structures which cover and
line the heart changes and are thickened, become cartilaginous or calcareous.
Then the valves lose their suppleness and what is termed valvular disorder
becomes permanent. The form of the coats of the incredible blood-vessel most
important from the coronary heart percentage in the same changes of structure
so that the vessel loses its elasticity and its power to feed the heart by the
recoil from its distention, after the heart, by its stroke, has filled it with
blood. Again, the muscular structure of the heart fails owing to degenerative
changes in its tissue. The elements of the muscular fiber are replaced by fatty
cells or, if not so replaced, are themselves transferred right into a changed
muscular texture wherein the electricity of contraction is significantly
reduced. Those who suffer from these organic deteriorations of the central and
governing organ of the circulation of The blood analyze the reality so
insidiously, it rarely breaks upon them till the mischief is a long way
advanced. They are conscious of a central failure of power from slight causes
such as overexertion, trouble, broken rest or too long abstinence from food.
They feel what they call a 'sinking' but they know that wine or some other stimulant
will at once relieve the sensation. Thus, they are trying to find to alleviate
it till at final they find out that the treatment fails. The jaded, overworked,
faithful heart will bear no more. It has run its course and the governor of the
blood-streams broken. The current either overflows into the tissues, gradually
damming up the courses, or under some slight shock or excess of motion ceases
wholly at the center.
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