Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York City last year ten of the 759 deaths from alcoholism were due to wood alcohol (methanol) ; in 1925, six of the 682 alcoholic deaths were so due. Wood alcohol, claimed the editors of Chemicals, trade publication, last week, has been maligned as a cause of death...
...Shumaker said that where state laws permitted prescription sales of whiskey, nearly all of whiskey so sold was for bootleg purposes; that whiskey possesses no medicinal qualities not possessed by grain alcohol and that grain alcohol was obtainable on prescription; that "we must bring about a better enforcement of the liquor law before we start tearing it down...
Whiskey Test. To the University of Cincinnati came 300 volunteers who drank good whiskey and then let their alcoholized breaths pass through a solution of 50% sulphuric acid containing a trace (1/3%) of potassium dichromate. This solution is ordinarily reddish yellow; alcohol vapor makes it change to a bluish green. The more whiskey the Cincinnati bibbers swallowed and the more drunk they became, the more bluish green became the solution. There is so definite a relation between degree of intoxication and the sulphuric acid-potassium dichromate tint, that Cincinnati judges have used its evidence in arrests for driving motor cars...
...editorially: "The cult of hatless men, which had few devotees . . . has many now. . . ." Further than this U. S. journalism has preferred not to go in raising an issue, perhaps some day to take its place beside such questions as: "Was Adam an ape-man?"; or "What per cent of alcohol makes a beverage 'intoxicating...
...Exhaled Alcohol. In Cincinnati Dr. Emil Bogen persuaded persons arrested for intoxication to blow up football bladders. Such exhaled gasses he made to pass through a solution of potassium bichromate, which changed from yellow to green in proportion to the amount of alcohol on the individual's breath. Extra Physical Work up to ten times normal is possible for a human in fair health. Neither the heart nor lungs limited the amount of work the body could do, in the bicycle-riding experiments of Dr. L. J. Henderson of Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. Unsympathetic Cat. Dr. Walter Bradford Cannon...