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What harm does alcohol do to the gray part of the brain?--"It hardens it,
as it hardens the white of an egg."
What harm does this do to the brain?--"It paralyzes it, or makes it lose
its power."
What then happens?--"It cannot properly do its work of thinking, and cannot
control the nerves."
What disease is sometimes caused by this hardening of the brain by
alcohol?--"Paralysis, which often ends in death."
What harm does alcohol do to the blood-vessels of the brain?--"It fills
them with impure blood."
What disease is caused by the blood-vessels of the brain being filled with
impure blood?--"Congestion of the brain, or apoplexy, which ends in death."
What else frequently happens to those who drink alcoholic liquors?--"They
become crazy, or insane."
If you wish to have a strong, healthy brain, what should you do about these
liquors?--
"Never put them into my mouth,
To steal away my brains."
Tell of what dreadful disease people die who are bitten by a mad dog.--"Of
hydrophobia."
Of what dreadful disease do people sometimes die who are bitten by the
serpent in alcoholic liquors?--"Of delirium tremens."
Which is the more dreadful, hydrophobia or delirium tremens?--"One is as
dreadful as the other.
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