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rather diminishes the amount Of car.
bonlc acid exhaled, instead Of increas-
Ing i, as Liebig's theory would seem.
to suggest; and that it finally leaves
the system in its original form through
the ordinary channels. It is needless
to say that the conclusion at which
three SO well known authorities arrived
carried JOY into the ranks of all true
abstainers; and their battle-ery, first
uttered a quarter Of a century ago,
Alcohol is no food-e every drop I'M
blbed leaves the system unchanged, is
still heard in the land, fortified by the
assertion that tits the outcome Of the
most recent Investigations.
But scientific Investigators do not
have that profound respect for battle
cries r % Which '1ti accepts conclusions without
examination. 3essl; l;il q az The most important
part OF Pefrin's S conclusion was based
On 'l the results OF experiments that
seemed stosproVe that, if alcohol is in
troducec sls Into the system, alcohol is
1 discharged e; from the system. Anstie and
HDupIe subsequently examined the se-
ere etlons5of e o persons who were, beyond
all supicion Of eVerusing alcohol, and
found a substance which could not by
any known l test be distinguished from
alcohol. This substance has frequent
sly been said to be alcohol produced
from liver sugar. is the same sub
stance which Perrin found in the secre-
tlons Of those who had i'm bibed alco-
hol. The results D obtained by Anstie
and Dupre do 8notspr that alcohol is
oxldized in the system but they do
prove that, if alcohol is secreted from
the bodies OF persons who have taken
alcohol, it is also secreted from the
bodies of total abstainers, ID fact which
completely destroys the value of Per-
rims conclusion and leaves the question
an open one, so far as the experiments
in question are concerned
But Anstie and Dupre also examined
the secretions Of persons whohad i'm
.bibed diluted alcohol Ans,ie found
that from the body of person who
grodua5ly consumes 100 grams (about
one-sixth quartz Of ethyl alcohol in So
luton in the coulse OF day, only one
tenth gram Gone qnart)
is secreted' Two bottles of light wine.
or one gallon Of ordinary beer contain
about One-sixth quart Of ethyl alcohol.
OF course, it must not be understood.
that nybody can imbibe such an 4 iim-s
mense quantity of alcoholic drink with
out injury. Anstie's Investigations sim.
ply show how much alcohol, gradually
introduced, disappears in the system;
and they render it highly probable that
q portion OF it disappears by oxidation,
as originally asserted by Liebig.
Similar results have been obtained
by numerous other Investigators,
among them Hammond, Dupre, Woeh-.
Ter, Ford, Bodlaender, Baudet. Schulz
nus, Thudichum, Edes, and others. It
is somewhat remarkable that DR.. Ham
mond is on the w. G. 7. us select
LIST. He is never quoted, however, in
reference to this particular subject by
the supporters of the good cause.
Although there is diversity of opin-
ion in respect to the process by which
alcohol disappears in the system, the
assertion made in many textbooks that
the highest authorities concur in con-
sidering alcohol as no food in any sense,
is a deliberate falsehood, as will be
seen from the following quotations.
"Small quantities of alcohol, when
taken by a healthy adult, disappear in
the system. ... Alcohol, like sugar and
starch, contains carbon in form suit
able for burning. Alcohol disappears
in the system. Hence it is held that
alcohol is burnt in the system. -. It's
certain that the system can be so
changed,by the useof alcoholics as to Be-
able to use considerable amounts OF al
cohol and to derive heat and force from
the same. 1t is true that shipwrecked
persons and Arctic explorers have lived
for some time on alcoholics alone. Y ct
a lcolsoJ rs not a good article of food,
is not a necessary article Of food = CDR.
John @. Cutter, 1879
Recent Investigations certainly DEM
onstTate that but q small proportion
Of ineested alcohol (physiologica doses)
is either eliminated from or accumulat-
ed in The body, and consequently that
it mnsti it must be oxidized in the body,
and in some degree partake Of the ma
ture of a food. 8. Alcohol is a food in
the sense that it is destroyed in the sys-
tenn and yields force which is utilized
BY the organism CDR. q. G. Wood,
1867
At present (1883) the weight Of au-
thority and the deductions Of expert
ment are ia favor Of that view which
maintains chat within certain limits one
to ore and one-half ounces ofaabsolute
alcohol to q healthy man, in divided
doses. well diluted with water, in "a
hours alcohol is oxidized and destroyed
in. the organism. and yields up force
which is applied as nervous, muscular
and gland force. Z (Bartholow.) It
may may be stated that one quart of
light beer contains about one ounce Of
absolute alcohol
Alcohol ..undergoes combustion to q
great degree in the body, maintains OF
increases the hedy weight, and prolongs
life on an insufficient Diet (Brunton.
An illustration Of the effects Of alcohol
in connection with an insufficient diet is
given BY Anstie. who says that a GER
tain London tailor lived for years on a