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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 302, 10 September 1918, Page 7

"Alcohol is a mocker- all the time," said Mr. F. Jlilner, M.A., during the course of his address at the Town Hall last evening. A man thought that it made.him warm. Is gave him the subjective sensation of warmth, but the real cffoct of it was to mako a man colder. The lowest- temperatures that had evor been recorded in tho human body had been obtained by putting a thermometer mi the mouth of a drunken man. I olar explorers would not take alcohol with them oil their journeys. The lltuh tlrnt was caused by the taking of alcohol wai' due to the flooding of the liny Licod vessels of tho face, due lo nei-. vous paralysis, ?nd not an all tc stimulction Excessive and frequent flushes caused that chronic facial decoration known as whisky-nose. Alcohol reduced the disease-resisting power olt a man. In the blood were billions of red corpuscles and a smaller number of white corpusclcs, the function of tlio latter being to destroy disease miciobes Ctttoring the system. It had been proved to demonstration that alcohol -devitalised the wliito. corpusclcs, narcotised them, and prevented them from carrying out their proper f .nation. In this way alcohol weakened our dcfcncea against disease from without. " The young of the nation ought to be taught what tlm real effects olf alcohol were, especially on the brain.