Show KILLED BY WHISKY post rost mort mont mortem mr examination 01 THE BRAIN OF A dram draw Z E R AND A FEW FACTS FROM AN EXPERT ABOUT THE tire EFFECTS af OF DRINK everybody knows how a living man appears and acts under the influence of liquor that ia is there 13 a general understand understanding ilIg of the condition of a man who staggers stag gers gera the streets hugs lamp upon fighting somebody or making za himself agreeable in spite of the disgustingly apparent fact that he is a nuisance but it is very few who know how a man looks after death occasioned by whisky he may sho shu show shun rt wwllie aile lile living a bloated red face a nose noeo watery red eyes and tremulous ou limb but it is only the eye of science that can read road tile tilo hidden ravages of drink upon the organs and tissues of the body and interpret the mysterious signs of the accumulated record for the outward and visible sign repulsive and pital ble blo as it may beto be to the untutored hardly compares with the horrid horrid revelations of the postmortem post mortem examination the effect of drink upon the living man varies according to tho tha temperament di disposition position i habits ac of the individual but it is obvious says a recognized authority on the subject that the brain is especially acted on by the stimulus for we observe all the mani mani fe stations of an excited action in them such as talkativeness rapidity and variety of thought exhilaration hil of the spirits animation i of the features and gestures gesture flush ed countenance and su suffusion of the eye eyes during slight intorica cation the tile prevailing dispositions and pursuits are often made manifest and hence the saying in DI vino veritas 9 1 the irritable and ill III tem dred become quarrelsome elsome the weak and aud d silly are boisterous with laughter and mirth fund and profuse in offers of service and the sad and hy readily burst into tears and dwell on mournful topics it has been demonstrated by by experiments peri ments on anit animals nals and observations of the human hunan being that alcohol passes immediately into the circulation and therefore acts almost immediately upon the brain no wonder then that a man fired up b by whisky is ready to shoot stab or bludgeon bih his fellow to athor deather de to do auy any anything thins thing taw th most reckless and desperate liot most of the homicides and murders which have occurred in this city are directly traceable to the malign influence of strong drink and it is strange to 0 o observe how ready many people are to excuse or at least palliate capital crime when perpetrated under uhe the spur ur of the moment bea sea A great many errors with regard to the influence and affee effects teof of whisky and other alcoholic stimulants obtain among people for por instance it is believed that a slug of whisky is a good thing to keep out the cold of a bitter night I 1 whereas in point of fact a cup of coffee with bread and butter is far more enduring and efficacious it would require a better knowledge of chemistry than the general reader possesses to demonstrate this but it has been satisfactorily established by carefully collated data and is vouched couched for by the highest medical authorities it is also well known that physical labor is not materially aided by alcoholic stimulation the effect of which is merely to foree force the wheels of the human machine so to speak into a more rapid action or motion for the time being but leaving the system correspondingly prostrated the mental powers weakened and the spirits depressed depress ed no one klows this better than the dram drinker who reels feels that he must have recourse again and again to tile the bottle for a renewal of what be he erroneously supposes to be strength now here is the brain of a person who died of whisky this announcement ws startling doubly so as the word was suited to the action netlon and the action to the word for accompanying it was a human brain bloody in appearance pe arance fresh and stinking nicely spread out on a platter it had been taken out of a glass bas basin n filled with alcohol as a preparative to dissection Q how did you obtain A in the usual way oui out Q how T A well weil that is my business but it is here Q allow me to ask then how you took it out of the whisky head and what there is peculiar pecullar about it A with pleasure you seo see the brain consists of two great parts the cerebrum and the cerebellum Q my dear sir be kind enough to speak in plain unscientific terms you see bee I 1 am not a scholar and least of all up in science of any kind besides bae eme aae ft A I 1 under understand z well now what do you wano want know here Is is a peculiar treatise that will probably give you all the information you desire Q will it tell me all about this brain A no not brair brain but of brains in general all you want to know Q now wo we understand each other tell me then all about this particular b brain m in how you came to take it out 0 of r t the he head and what it reveals to you this if you please in a plain conversational style that everybody will understand A all right I 1 heard of the death of this person erson and kno knowing the cause of Z the death I 1 went to the subject and had permission to take out the brain for examination in the first place I 1 made an incision under tile the hair line from the ears backward and stripped the scalp from the skull drawing the former forward and over the face which left the skull bone exposed I 1 then sawed the top of the skull taking care eare not to kletthe let iet the saw injure the brain which was then removed or scooped out and put in that basin of alcohol Q well go on please what next A I 1 examined it keeping constantly in mind the dule duie rence renco in the appearance from froni the normal or healthy brain Q and therein lies the interest A certainly well I 1 I 1 observed that this brain wa wi A hardened I 1 should have said iio Ito however wever that when I 1 removed the skull a strong alcoholic fume or rnell finell f escaped for the body was yet warm or retained some heat when I 1 obtained access to it when I 1 say hardened I 1 mean that it is harder than is natural the vessels were enlarged and congested in other words they looked as though gorged with blood that had remained III in them when the patient died for you know that as a general thing the blood vessels empty themselves in death dt ath or properly speaking the blood is withdrawn lom aiom from the circulation the brain is largely compa composed ed of albumen lumen al and constant drink has about abou t the same effect on onit it that alcohol has upon the white of an egg it coagulates and hardens it and that means mental wreck and death Q how does drink kill hill A by injuring Dju ring the brain in tile the manner indicated at least that is coneway one way of couise there are other fatal effects of excess ex vb d drink r 1 ahsu sueh such ch as 8 liver iver kidney and bowel bow ea diseases d beas es buethe but the first injury is mulched mulcted on the ahe brain just look at these little it tie tle cluts and dark spots in this brain pointing them out with the handle of the scalpel now in a normal northal brain urain these would kotap nat not appear at all the brain would be of a tini uniform form pinkish white color not mottled like this death ensues from excessive drink slowly but surely sometimes the victim drops as if shot then it is called apoplexy sometimes a stupor sets in that ends with paralysis and death deith you see these vessels tracing them with the scalpel are enlarged and they no do doubt pressed upon the brain subs substance Uince producing a sense of or suffocation and nd choking perhaps a fullness of the tile head that must have been dread ful at times to bear this feeling has been described to me as a lump of lead or a lump jump of ice lee on the brain I 1 have had whisky patients tell me that they sometimes felt as though their head was screwed up in a vise but to return to this brain I 1 have to ob observe ervo erve er that it is shrunk from the natural siz oue one of the most noticeable effects of alcohol on the animal tissues sues gues Q how long do you suppose did f it take to produce this effect upon the brain urain A at the owner of this brain was wag an unordinary ordinary blinker duinker and ni aught agla have been a constant drinker ro gur fur five fi besix fix ten or m fre fro years on thisie am not informed but I 1 should say that one years yearns hard drinking would produce the effect you here witness Q but does drink produce this effect in every ease cape A it certainly does more or less ace according to the quantity and frequency of the A moderate drinker can indulge for a greater length of time than an excessive drinker but ba hasday y of reckoning will come just a as surely as it did to the miserable devil whose br brain we are looking at there anything else of interest te in this connection that you think of to mention A aoh oh I 1 could tell you a great deal more about the effect of drink upon the thi brain urain but I 1 think you have enogh enough at another time per yer perhaps hapl 1 1 can show you 9 a hobnail liver a 1 l fatty heart or an enlarged kidney the tho result of drink and 1 will wiil be siad slad to doso boso do so but noname no name you understand understands certainly not cleveland plain dealer |