...liquors ; and there can be no doubt that the elements of alcohol combine with oxygen in the body ; that its carbon and hydrogen are given off as carbonic...alcohol) could not combine with oxygen in the body. It is, consequently, obvious, that by the use of alcohol a limit must rapidly be put to the change...

...penetrate into the interior of the body. Owing to its volatility and the ease with which its vapor permeates animal membranes and tissues, alcohol can spread throughout the body in all directions. pounds formed by the change of matter, or that of the substance of living tissues, they (the elements...

...alcohol, but not in water. Liebig says: " Owing to its volatility, and the ease with which its vapor permeates animal membranes and tissues, alcohol can spread throughout the body in all directions." Evidently the quickness or slowness with which so volatile a liquid passes to the state of an all-permeating...

...and strongest. Licbig says : " Owing to its volatility and the ease with which its vapors permeate animal membranes and tissues, alcohol can spread throughout the body in all directions. " A dog, into whose stomach Doctor Percy injected simple alcohol, fell almost instantly dead ; breathing...

...L. says that " owing to its volatility and the ease with which the vapour permeates (goes through) animal membranes and tissues, alcohol can spread throughout the body in all directions." But where does the oxygen come from which unites with the elements of alcohol ? if it is that which...