RESUMO
The authors present results of comparative morphological studies of changes in the liver after intoxication with alcohol-containing liquids in human and following subacute treatment of animals with ethyl and propyl alcohols, ethylene glycol and their mixtures. It was shown that poisoning caused by individual chemical substances and their mixtures induced significantly different changes in the liver of animals. The mixtures produced much more serious toxic lesions in the parenchymal tissue than individual spirits (including development of necrotization foci) and contributed to enhanced mortality of experimental animals. The morphological picture of the liver in human subjects poisoned by a mixture of alcohols resembled that after intoxication with carbon tetrachloride and was consistent with the changes in people who had died during episodes of mass poisoning with surrogate alcoholic beverages and alcohol-containing liquids.
