Effect of Alcohol on Blood

Dr. Richardson, in his lecture on alcohol, given both in England and America, talked about the action of this substance in blood after passing from the stomach, saying:

Effect of Alcohol on Blood

For example, then, a certain size of alcohol will be put into the stomach, it will be absorbed there, but, before absorption, it must experience the right level of dilution with water, because there is a peculiarity that respects alcohol at that time. separated by animal membranes from aqueous fluids such as blood, which will not pass through the membrane until it has been filled, to a certain extent dilution, with water. In itself, in fact, it is so greedy for water, it will take it from an aqueous texture, and eliminate it until, with its saturation, the strength of its reception runs out, after which it will spread to circulating fluid flows. .

This is the power to absorb water from any texture that comes into contact with alcoholic spirits, which creates a thirst that burns from those who are free to enjoy its use. The effect, when it reaches the circulation, is explained by Dr. Richardson:

When passing through the circulation the lungs are exposed to air, and little of that, is lifted into steam by natural heat, thrown in expiration. If the quantity is large, this loss may be large, and the smell of spirits can be detected in expired breaths. If the quantity is small, the loss will be relatively small, because the spirit will be held in solution by water in the blood. After passing through the lungs, and being pushed by the left heart into the arterial circuit, it passes through what is called minute circulation, or the structural circulation of the organism. The arteries here extend to very small vessels, called arterioles, and from these infinite small vessels give rise to radicals or roots of blood vessels, which in turn become large rivers that bring blood back to the heart. In this journey through circulation this minute alcohol found its way to every organ. To this brain, to these muscles, to the organs that secrete or excrete this dirt, even into the bone structure itself, it moves with blood. In some of these parts that do not remove dirt, it remains for scattered time, and in parts where there is a large percentage of water, it stays longer than in other parts. Of the several organs that have an open tube to expel fluid, because the liver and kidneys are removed or removed, and in this way some of them are finally removed from the body. The remaining passing circulates with circulation, perhaps decomposed and carried in the form of new material.

When we know the pathway that alcohol takes on its journey through the body, from the period of its absorption to its elimination, we are better able to assess what physical changes it causes to the different organs and structures with which it is in contact. First reach blood; but, as a rule, the incoming quantity is not enough to produce a material effect on the liquid. However, if the dose taken is toxic or semi-toxic, then even blood, rich as in water and containing seven hundred and ninety parts in a thousand is affected. Alcohol is spread through this water, and there comes contact with other constituent parts, with fibrin, a plastic substance which, when blood is taken, clots and clots, and which is present in proportions of two to three parts in a thousand; with albumen in proportion to seventy parts; with salt which produces about ten parts; with fat problems; and finally, with those minutes, a round body floating in the blood in the blood (discovered by the Dutch philosopher, Leuwenhock, as one of the first results of microscopic observations, around the middle of the seventeenth century), and so-called blood clots or blood cells . The latter body is actually cells; their discs, when natural, have fine lines, they are pressed in the middle, and the color is red; the color of blood that comes from them. We have found that there are far smaller amounts of cells or other cells in the blood, called white cells, and these different cells float in the bloodstream in the vessels. Red takes the river center; white lies externally near the sides of the vessels, moving less quickly. Our business is mainly with red cells. They perform the most important functions in the economy; they absorb, in large part, the oxygen we breathe during breathing, and carry it to the extreme tissues of the body; they absorb, for the most part, carbonic acid gas produced in the body's burning in extreme tissues, and bring the gas back to the lungs to be exchanged with

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