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Show (Conducted by the NitHonnl Woman's Christian Temper"''0" Union) r DANGER FROM ALCOHOL. in pneumonia or In Biiako lite, hen recovery takes place an Invasion ol tho parts affected by a large nurabei of leucocytes or whlto blood corpus clos Ib Invariably observed. Delcirdc Insists thnt this Invasion Is essentia' to recovery. Mnssort and Bordcl Uom nustrotcd thut alcohol, oven In un dilute solution, drives away the white corpuscles or loucoytes, and If alco hoi Is circulated In tho blood, ovcu in very minute quantities, the louco cytos cannot push their way into tho blood at all readily, and ttierofora ennnot bo transported to the Beat ol the diseaso. Alcohol thus prevents tho whlto cells or leucocytes from coming up to nttack nnd repel tho Invading In-vading organisms. . Tho leucocytes leu-cocytes act as a kind of sanitary police po-lice Thoy appear whorever dead matter mat-ter Is to bo removed, they attempt to prevent tho lnvnslon of tho body by dlkoaso producing organising, and once they como to grips with tholt opponents thoy dlo rather than glvo way. .... Diseaso producing or ganlstns getting into tho tisBueB during dur-ing tho tlmo that alcohol is holdlns back the leucocytes, and mooting with no resistance from thorn, entrench thomsclves Btrongly, so that tho leucocytes leu-cocytes cannot drlvo thorn out, and a sovero, often fatal, attack of disease Is the result. Dr. Sims Woodhead, Cambrldgo University, England. |
