Brain Substance.
When brain substance is placed in alcohol, it loses its water and mobility ef particles, and becomes more solid and arm. t The question here arises : Is this thing possible with the living brain ? Is it possible (asks, the Popular Science Monthly), that, in oases of delirium tremens, so muoh alcohol has, been consumed, that by its diffusion through the brain it has robbed nerve matter of its; mobile character, and consequently of its. power to throw off the products of its life functions? That alcohol may in this way aot on the brain of tbe enebriate is an opinion which, as yet, can hardly be demonstrated dlreotly, but experiments made seem to render it highly probable. Brain substaaoe, derived from an ox, was placed in a diluted solution of aloohol at the temperature of the blood, viz.: 100 deg. Fahr. When the liquid was drawn out after a few hours, and filtered, the filtrate threw down a white deposit of matter which tbe aloohol had disolve'd out of the brain.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1555, 27 August 1881, Page 28
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173Brain Substance. Otago Witness, Issue 1555, 27 August 1881, Page 28
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