Outlines of Physiology Both Comparative And Human in Which Are Described the
Outlines of Physiology Both Comparative And Human in Which Are Described the
J L John Lee Comstock
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If we allow 70 years to be the age of man, and sixty pulses in a minute for the common measure of a temperate man, then we should have 2, 209, 032, 000, as the number of pulsations during his life. But if an- other, by reason of intemperance, forces his blood into motion at the rate of 75 pulses in a minute, then instead of living three-score and ten years, he will run through his whole number of pulsations in 56 years, thus cutting short his days by the term of 14 years. " Barry on Di- gestion..., London, 1759. 403. This is certainly a sober consideration and ought to be carefully weighed by those who urge along the current of their blood by mixing it with alcohol, for as we have already seen, this liquid is taken into the blood in the same state in which it goes into the stomach, the gastric liquid having no power to change it into nour- ishment. The circulating fluid of him who drinks dis- tilled spirits, though it be mixed with water, is therefore a compound of blood and alcohol, which stimulating the left ventricle, and making it contract with unwonted ra- pidity, increases the number of pulsations, and exhaust- ing the irritability, produces a weak and flabby condition of the machinery, which finally refuses to perform its functions, the miserable possessor sinks down and dies before his time.
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