The Intemperate Nan’s Brain.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 365, 19 June 1908, Page 2

The Intemperate Nan’s Brain.

An anatomist of great distinction used to say that be could distinguish in the darkest room by one stroke of the scalp, 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 demon stration. When tha 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 tbe indurating process before death—begins it white the brain remains the consecrated temple of tbe soul, while its delicate and gossamer tissues still throb with tbe pulse of heaven born life. Strange infatuation thus to desecrate the go J-like ! Terrible enchantment that dries up all the fountain cf generous feeling, petrifies all tha tender humanities and sweet charities of lite, leaving only a brain of lead and a heart of stone !