HARM DONE BY ALCOHOL TO THE
HEART. BLOOD-VESSELS. LUNGS.
Overworks it. Hurries the blood through Makes them work too
Makes it tired. them. fast.
Loads it with fat. Stretches the small Heats and inflames
Softens and destroys arteries and makes them them.
it. unfit to work. Hardens the walls of
Poisons the blood in the their air-cells.
hair-like blood-vessels Keeps in the poisonous
(capillaries). gas.
Keeps out the good gas
(oxygen).
Weakens them and makes
them diseased.
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THE BLOOD ("The life ... is in the blood")
Consists of
A colorless liquid (plasma), and
Little, red, circle-shaped bodies (corpuscles).
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ALCOHOL (a blood-poison)
Mixes with the colorless liquid, and takes away some of its goodness.
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