THE INTEMPERATE MAN'S BRAIN.
An anatomist of great distinction used to say that he could distinguish in the darkest room, by one stroke of the scalped, the brain of the inebriate from that of the person who had lived soberly. Now and then he would congratulate his class upon the possession of a drunkard's brain, admirably fitted from its hardness and more complete preservation for the purpose of demonstration. When the anatomist wishes to preserve a human brain for any length of time he effects his object by keeping that organ in a vessel of alcohol. From a soft pulpy substance it then becomes comparatively hard. But the inebriate, anticipating the anatomist, begins the indurating process before death—-begins it while the brain remains the consecrated temple of the soul, while its delicate and gossamer tissues still throb with the pulse of heaven-born life. Strange infatuation, thus to desecrate the god-like! Terrible enchantment that dries up all the fountain of generous feeling petrifies all the tender humanities and sweet charities of life, leaving only a brain of lead, and a heart of stone !
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King Country Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 86, 12 June 1908, Page 4
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182THE INTEMPERATE MAN'S BRAIN. King Country Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 86, 12 June 1908, Page 4
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