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Show Alcohol Aids Pneumotnia Alcohol and pneumonia bugs run hand-in-hand through the human body during the winter, said an editorial in The Southern Medical Association Journal!, which advises inbibers of alcohol to ease up on drinking during the pneumonia season. Officals of the Association declare de-clare that pneumonia deaths are greater among alcoholics than among teetotalers. Alcohol causes piness of al least one little boy or the white blood cells to slow up in their normal work of destroying destroy-ing disease germs. It also causes interference with the normal functioning of the "throat valve" which controls the opening to the stomach and lungs. In the words ot Dr. M. Y. Dab-ney, Dab-ney, editor of The Journal, "alcohol thus aids both the passage pas-sage of the organisms into the lungs and incerieres with their .V.-SU urtLoJi in tle bloodstream." '1'hciv .s, so fur as we know, no ixaso'.i tu doubt the accuracy of the warning which is given by ihs Medical Journal. Individuals who make it a habit to take alcohol, alco-hol, will, if they are wise, take advantage of this warning. |