The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-05-04
HOW M1NY BEERS MAKE INrEMPEH-
dECE?
Experts Conclude that the Number Varies
With Different Men.

| Experts Conclude that the Number Varies
With Dinerent Men.
Recently in the License Court OF Pitts
burg Judge Ewing expressed the opinion that
a man who drank five or six glasses OF beer
| day was not temperate. Such u conclusion 10
contrary to the experience OF experts There
are. for instance. In all breweries plenty OF men
who drink moro than that quantity year In
and year out. day by day, and are sufficiently
sober to keep regularly at their work. Tho
| amount OF alcoholic stimulant in an ordinary
| glass OF beer is 30 small that when Ave glasses
| are distributed throughout the working hours
| OF the day they do not produce any perceptible
| effect. Any one in the habit OF drinking beer
can take glass every three hours without in.
reference with his powers OF locomotion or
with his working capacity.
Tho question whether lager beer will intoxi-
cate has long been disputed. There are plenty
OF men in New York who will testify that they
can drink to their full drinking capacity with
out being effected by beer. 1t was sworn to In
court in this city few years ago. by wit
ness that he had drunk sixty glasses OF beer In
one day without becoming intoxicated
1t is q common thing for workmen who are
engaged in occupations that cause q great deal
OF perspiration to drink large quantities Of
beer without apparent injury Men who work
over furnaces or in boundaries seem TO have
great capacity for beer
1t is often disputed question whether man
Is drunk or not. Policemen. who ought to be
experts. frequently mistake sickness for
drunkenness. and. when they find men limp
helpless. Jump at the conclusion that they are
drunk. A number Of cases have occurred
where sick mon. unjustly accused of being
drunk, have been put in cells and died there
when they merely needed medical attendance.
Many medicines produce stupor that an igno-
rant policeman may readily mistake for drunk.
enness Injuries OF the brain produce q dazed
condition. and incoherence Of speech that 10
easily mistaken for incompetence.
Any habitual beer drinker would laugh at
the idea OF being considered Incorporate
beer day. 1t is not an unusual thing for
beer drinkers TO take five or six glasses at Q
sitting without being incapacltated from walk
The amount OF beer. and in fact. of anything
else; that man can become habituated is sur.
the most active poisons may be taken In large
Quantities; such as would kill an inexperisnced
luudanum. strychnine are taken at first in
small doses, which soon lose their effect. aud
one time would kill an ordinary man. In the
beer; OF course. men differ what Is one
be temperate for one would be most ibtemDer-
ate for another; Five glasses for one would be
glasses that viii produce intoEicHtion for
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hall and drink beer all the evening. aud he
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