Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Adopted Senator Edwards' resolution calling on Secretary Mellon to reveal what role the Anti-Saloon League had in fixing the poisonous denaturants used in industrial alcohol...
...denatured alcohol containing poison is labeled poison. The bootlegger who takes that label off and substitutes his fake label is as guilty of murder as the man who would sell arsenic as sugar...
...only other course for the Government would be to announce that it can enforce the Prohibition law so well that it does not need to put any denaturant in industrial alcohol...
...formula "No.5" adds 4 parts methanol (wood alcohol), 2.25 parts pyridine bases, 0.5 parts benzene to 100 parts ethyl alcohol. Three ordinary drinks of this may cause blindness...
Drinkers' Sons. Ten generations of rats were daily intoxicated with alcohol fumes. The eleventh generation was put in a cage with descendants of nonalcoholic rats. The two strains got drunk at the same rate. Conclusion: a drinker's sons cannot inherit from him a steady head for drinking; acquired characteristics are not demonstrably inheritable.?Frank Blair Hanson and Florence. Hays, Washington University, St. Louis...