When alcohol is poured into it, day after day, it loses
its desire for good, wholesome food, _and wants more and more alcoholic
liquor_. It has an appetite for alcohol.
Alcohol makes the stomach sore and full of disease; people who take much of
it in liquors always suffer much from dyspepsia.
So, if the stomach could speak, it would say: "Don't pour any alcohol into
me, though you mix it and call it ale, cider, wine, or any other name that
makes folks think it will do me no harm. You cannot deceive me. I know
alcohol as soon as it comes down, and it always makes me suffer."
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BLACKBOARD OUTLINE.
ALCOHOL--
Burns or inflames the coats of the stomach.
Spoils the gastric juice.
Makes the food hard to be dissolved.
Makes the stomach tired and weak.
Takes away the appetite for wholesome food.
Makes an appetite for alcoholic liquors.
Causes disease in the stomach and other digestive organs.
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QUESTION ON BLACKBOARD OUTLINE.
What harm does alcohol do in the stomach?
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TO THE BONES, MUSCLES, AND SKIN.
_TO THE BONES._--You have already learned that the bones require to be
supplied with good blood to make them strong and healthy, and that alcohol
does not make good blood, so we need spend no time in deciding that
alcoholic liquors do injury to the bones, and that the bones of those who
drink these liquors are less likely to heal, when broken, than those of
persons whose blood has not been poisoned by alcohol.
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