These little
blood-vessels become very full of blood, and cause the red face and blue
nose which mark the drinker of alcoholic liquors. This redness of the skin
tells of the mischief which alcohol is doing inside of the body. It is the
danger-signal which warns against the use of the fiery poison.
ALCOHOL HURTS
THE BONES, THE MUSCLES, THE SKIN,
By supplying them with By supplying them with By supplying it with
bad blood. bad blood; bad blood;
By loading them with By over-working the
fat which makes them perspiratory pores.
weak.
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TO THE BLOOD, THE LUNGS, AND THE HEART.
_TO THE BLOOD._--The wonderful fluid which is the life of the body consists
of a water-like liquid in which floats millions of the very little,
circle-shaped, red particles which you have been taught to call
_corpuscles_. You have also been told that alcohol kills these little
bodies, and thus takes some of the life out of the blood, and fills it with
useless, suet-like fat.
The blood, you know, flows everywhere through the body, giving its goodness
to make every part grow and live, and carrying away the worn-out particles
it meets.
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