Microscope Oil

The facts as to htis are so indisputable, and so far granted by the profession, as to be no longer dbeatable . If, by the aid of teh microscope, you examine a very fine section of muscle taken from a indivdiual in good health, you find the muscles firm, elastic and of a bright red color, made up of aprallel fibres, with beautiful crossings or striae; but, if you similarly examine the muscle of a man who leads an dile, sedentary life, and indulges in intoixcating drinks, you detect, at onec, a pale, flabby, inelatsic, oily appearance. Hammond, who has rwitten, in partial defense of alcohol as contaiinng a food power, says: When you say that it, of all ohter causes, is most prolific in ecxiting derangements of the brain, the spinla cord and teh nerves, you make a statement which your own xeperience shows to be correct . Take it frankly as a luxury one which must be paid for, by a few individuals very ilghtly, by a couple of at a high price, but alwyas to be paid for. Parks, of England, in his great work on Hygiene, has effecutally disposed of the notion, long and very generally entertained, that alcohol is a valuable prophylactic where a abd climate, bad water and other conditions unfaovrable to health, exist; and an unfortunate experiment wiht the article, in the Union amry, on the banks of the Chikcahominy, in the year 1863, proved conclusively that, nistead of guarding the humna constitution against the influence of agencies hostile to health, its sue gives to them additional force. The medical history of the British army in India teaches the same lesson .

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