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DESTRUCTIVE
ALCOHOL
If we pour a little
quantity of strong spirits upon a growing plant in our garden or
greenhouse, we shall soon see it shrivel and die. If we apply it to
insects or small reptiles, which we capture for the purpose of this
test, the same potent poison will procure for them a speedy death. If
we force one of our domestic animals to take habitual doses of it, the
animal will not only strongly protest against the unnatural and
nauseous potion, but it will gradually sicken and lose all power for
usefulness.
For example: If you wish to spoil for example the most perfect specimen
of a working animal, say a horse, without inflicting mechanical injury,
you could choose no better agent for the purpose of the experiment than
alcohol.
The
effects produced by alcohol are common, so far as we can
discover, to every animal. Alcohol is a universal intoxicant, and in
the higher orders of animals is capable of inducing the most systematic
phenomena of disease. But it is reserved for man himself to exhibit
these
phenomena in their purest form, and to present, through them, in the
morbid conditions belonging to his age, a distinct pathology.
Bad as
this is, it might be worse; for if the evils of alcohol were made to
extend equally to animals lower than man, we should soon have none that
were tamable, none that were workable, and none that were eatable.
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