How Alchohol Enters the System.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 573, 22 January 1876, Page 2 (Supplement)

How Alchohol Enters the System.

WnEN taken in by the mnre ordinary channel, the stomach ; it finds its way by two routes into circulation. -» certain portion — th^ greater portion of it, is absorbed by direct veinß of the alimentary sur ace finds its^ way straight into the larger reins, which lead up to the heart and onward, with the course of the blond. A nother portion is picked up by small struc tures proceeding from below the mucous membrane of the stomach and from which originate a series of fine tubes ttiat reach at last the bottom of a common tube, termed the thoratic duet — a tube that ascends in front of the spinal column and terminates at the junction of two large veins on the left side of the body, at a point where the venous blood, returning from the left arm, joins with the returnng blood from the left side of the head on its way to the heart. It is so greedy for water that it will pick it up from all the watery textures of the body and deprive them ot it, until, by i's saturation, it can take up no more, its power of reception being exhausted, 1 after wh-ch it diffuses itself into the current of circulation fluia When we dilute alcohol w»th water before drinking it, we quicken its solution, and, if we do not dilute it sufficiently, it ib diluted in the BtomacU by the transn-da-.ion of water in the stomach until the required reduction for its absorp--J tion is effected j

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