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Article #413: Action of Alcohol On Internal Organs

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






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