The heart beats far more rapidly, and the speed increases in proportion to the amount of alcohol absorbed.

The average number of beats of the heart, allowing for its slower action during sleep, is 100,000 beats per day.

Under a small supply of alcohol this rose to 127,000, and in actual intoxication to 131,000.
The flush upon the cheek is only a token of the same fact within; every organ is congested.

The brain has been examined under such circumstances, and "looked as if injected with vermilion ...

the membrane covering both brains resembling a delicate web of coagulated red blood, so tensely were its fine vessels engorged." At a later stage the muscular power is paralyzed, the rule of mind over body suspended, and a heavy, brutal sleep comes, long or short according to the amount taken.