6. Alcohol keeps the stomach from digesting food.
7. Alcohol soaks into the blood tubes and goes to the liver.
8. The liver destroys the alcohol, but is hurt in doing it.
CHAPTER IX
THE BLOOD
81. Blood.—After food becomes blood, it goes to every part of the body to feed the cells. Even a pin prick anywhere in the body draws blood. The blood makes the skin pink. There are five or six quarts of blood in a man's body. This is about 1/13 of his body.
