A warning to "Bright Young People" who attend three or four ccektall parties a week is given by Dr, Arthur', Hurst, senior physician at Guy's Hospital, im the current issu" Of the "Practitioner." Their anxious parents he explains, are apt to regard their sallow complexions, loss appetite, mental torpor, and" irrit~ ability as being due to' some serious des case, But in reality these symptoms are merely an, expression of what he designates "alcoholic hep-'Mosis." "This new medical term rerers toa clearly recognized condition of eaves of poisoning of the liver cells. Typleal symptoms of a state of disordered liver are that the subject Waker up with a dull headache, no appetite for breakfast, a dirty tongue, anda general feeling that life is not worth living. These familiar symptoms of "The morning after the night before" are, Dr.
Hurst explains, actually the symptoms of acute Vepatosis, The symptoms ence Dr. Hurst points out, leads to chronic state of this condition, which even though it has been present for many months, is still capable of complete recovery. "It is only when Cversindulgence is' continued without Intermission for years that irrepar-Able damage to the liver is done,
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