rehend
intoxication and its results, from the filling of the cup to its shattering
fall from the nerveless hand, and this is the end of the matter. Would to
God that it were! for at that it would be bad enough. But it is not, for
wife, children and friends must suffer and drink the cup of trouble and
sorrow to its dregs.

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OBJECT LESSONS OF THE EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL AND CIGARETTE SMOKING.

By PROF. GEORGE HENKLE, who personally made the postmortem examinations and
drew the following illustrations from the diseased organs just as they
appeared when first taken from the bodies of the unfortunate victims.

[Illustration: THE STOMACH of an habitual drinker of alcoholic stimulants,
showing the ulcerated condition of the mucous membrane, incapacitating this
important organ for digestive functions.]

[Illustration: THE STOMACH (interior view) of a healthy person with the
first section of the small intestines.]

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[Illustration: THE LIVER of a drunkard who died of Cirrhosis of the liver,
also called granular liver, or "gin drinker's liver." The organ is much
shrunken and presents rough, uneven edges, with carbuncular non-suppurative
sores. In this self-inflicted disease the tissues of the liver undergo a
cicatrical retraction which strangulates and partly destroys the parenchyma
of the liver.]

[Illustration: THE LIVER IN HEALTH.]

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[Illustration: THE KIDNEY of a man who died a drunkard, showing in upper
portion the sores so often found on kidneys of hard drinkers, and in the
lower portion, the obstruction formed in the internal arrangement of this
organ. Alcohol is a great enemy to the kidneys, and after this poison has
once set in on its destructive course in these organs no remedial agents
are known to exist to stop the already established disease.]

[Illustration: THE KIDNEY in health, with the lower section removed, to
show the filtering apparatus (Malphigian pyramids). Natural size.]

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[Illustration: THE LUNGS AND HEART of a boy who died from the effects of
cigarette smoking, showing the nicotine sediments in lungs and shrunken
condition of the heart.]

[Illustration: THE LUNGS AND HEART IN HEALTH.]

[Illustration: A section of the diseased Lung of a cigarette smoker, highly
magnified.]

THE DESTRUCTIVE EFFECTS OF
CIGARETTE SMOKING.

[Illustration: _Illustrating the shrunken condition of one of the Lungs of
an excessive smoker_]

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