Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1880 — A Drunkard’s Body After Death. [ARTICLE]

A Drunkard’s Body After Death.

A post- mortem examination of nearly seventy persons who had died from the excessivej use of ardent spirits showed the following facts: 1. Congestion of the scalp and of the membranes of the biain, with much serous [watery) effusion; the substance of the brain white and firm, as if it had lain in alcohol for one or two hours. 2. The Jungs not always, but frequently, congested err inflamed. 3. The heart flabby, enlarged, dilated, and loaded with fat on the outside, the blood in it of cherry-red color, and with no tendency to coagulate.

4. The stomach perfectly white, and thickened in some cases; in others, having patches of chronic inflammation. In the worst cases the larg© portion of the stomach covered with that species of inflammation which causes the blood to be poured from the minute veins. 5. The liver enlarged—in old drunkards weighing from six to twelve pounds. 6. The omentum - a sort of apron which immediately covers the abdomen in from;—loaded with a gray, slushy fat. 7. The kidneys enlarged, flabby, and infiltrated in numerous spots with a whitish matter. 8. The small intestines filled with bile and coated with tenacious mucus9. The blood in a very fluid condi tion, having but little fibr ine, bu much albumen and fat. 10. The whole body, except the brain, decomposing very rapidly. Is it a wonder that “a drunkard has woes?”

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