Action on the stomach.
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Alcohol's harmful effects on the stomach can prevent it from producing enough natural digestive fluid and hinder its ability to absorb food, leading to imperfect digestion. An alcoholic will always experience a condition characterized by nausea, emptiness, prostration, and distention. This leads to a strong dislike for food and a persistent desire for more alcohol. As a result, a permanent disorder known as dyspepsia develops. The disastrous forms of confirmed ingestion originate from this practice.
How the liver gets affected.
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The organic deteriorations caused by the continued use of alcohol are often of a fatal character. The organ that most frequently undergoes structural changes from alcohol is the liver. Normally, the liver has the capacity to hold active substances in its cellular parts. In instances of poisoning by various poisonous compounds, we analyze the liver as if it were the central depot of the foreign matter. Alcohol has a similar effect on the liver. Alcohol's influence never leaves the liver of an alcoholic, and it often saturates it. Alcohol affects the liver's minute membranous or capsular structure, hindering proper dialysis and free secretion. The liver becomes large due to the dilatation of its vessels, the surcharge of fluid matter, and the thickening of tissue. This is followed by the membrane contracting and the entire organ shrinking in its cellular parts. The veins' obstruction of the returning blood causes the lower parts of the alcoholic to become dropsy. Fatty cells may charge the liver's structure, leading to a condition known as 'fatty liver'.
How the kidneys deteriorate.
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The kidneys also suffer due to the excessive consumption of alcohol. The vessels of the kidneys lose elasticity and power of contraction. The minute structures in them go through fatty modification. The albumin from the blood easily passes through their membranes. As a result, the body gradually loses its power, as if it were slowly running out of blood.
Congestion of the lungs.
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Alcohol easily relaxes the lungs' vessels, which are most susceptible to heat and cold fluctuations. When subjected to the effects of a rapid variation in atmospheric temperature, they get readily congested. During severe winter seasons, the suddenly fatal congestion of the lungs easily affects an alcoholic.
Alcohol weakens the heart.
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Consumption of alcohol greatly affects the heart. Alcohol consumption alters and thickens the membraneous structures that cover and line the heart, transforming them into cartilaginous or calcareous structures. Subsequently, the valves become less flexible, leading to the permanent development of a valvular disorder. The coats of the great blood vessel leading from the heart undergo the same changes, so the vessel loses its elasticity and power to feed the heart and recoils from its distention after the heart stroke fills it with blood.
Again, the muscular structure of the heart fails owing to degenerative changes in its tissue. Fatty cells either replace the elements of the muscular fiber, or if not, they themselves transform into a modified muscular texture, resulting in a significant reduction in contraction power.
Those who suffer from these organic deteriorations of the central and governing organ of the circulation of the blood learn the fact so insidiously, it hardly breaks upon them until the mischief is far advanced. They become aware of a central failure of power due to minor factors like overexertion, stress, interrupted sleep, or prolonged fasting. They experience a sensation they refer to as'sinking', but they are aware that consuming wine or any other stimulant will immediately alleviate this sensation. Thus, they strive to alleviate the sensation until they finally realize that the remedy is ineffective. The jaded, overworked, faithful heart will bear no more. It has run its course, and the governor of the bloodstreams is broken. The current either overflows into the tissues, gradually damming up the courses, or, under some slight shock or excess of motion, ceases wholly at the center.
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