Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1901-10-28
DANGER IN BIG DRINKS.

1t is the opinion OF Chicago bartend-
ers that Ralph Allen, the Fort Sherl-
dan recruit who won a wager by tax
ing a pint OF raw whiskey at a gulp
the other day could have won the
sum in any ordinary barroom by max
ing the quantity only half a pint, says
the Chicago Tribune. In the opinion
Of DR.. n. 5. Davis, the veteran prac-
titioner who has made alcoholism the
subject of years of study, the fact that
Allen went to the guardhouse instead
Of to the undertaker's seems to par
take of something akin to The thing
commonly referred to as "a dispensa-
ton of Providence" Half as much
whiskey as Allen took has killed many
man-and especially many young
men who have not attained their
growth" said DR.. Davis. Il shall
watch with interest to see If the man
dies from 1t. To one unfamiliar with
The workings of alcohol such gulp
of whiskey is not appreciated A pint
of whiskey drank inside of an hour
is vastly different in its effects to a
pint of whiskey swallowed at one
drink. Just as soon as alcohol is TAX
en- into the system the body begins to
make efforts to throw off the poison.
Much of it is exhaled from the body
with the breath; much of 1t passes on
into the lower digestive apparatus, and
1t is even said that it eXudes from the
body through the pores. The salvation
of the drunkard, of course, lies in the
manner in which alcohol asects the
nerve centers of the brain. Else the
lrst time a man took whiskey enough
to lntoxicate he would die on the spot
quicker than from a dose of arsenic.
Take a man who is drinking whiskey
and observe him. The effect of the
drink is upon the higher faculties, and
its first influence is to tell upon a
mans sense of reserve and his regard
for the properties. After the first drink
his tongue is loosened, he talks more
glibly than before. With the second
drink his reserve is gone and his talk
probably borders upon the indiscreet.
At the third drink If he be in congen-
ial company, he may want to dance,
and at the fourth he is satisfied that
ne is the best dancer in the house.
Just when he would prove the fact
somebody is likely to prevent it, and
he becomes offended. With equal con-
viction he announces that he can whip
any one man in the house, and with
the succeeding drink he does some
sparrlng TO give weight to his utterance.
He begins to lose control of his mus
cles, however. and when he has sunk
into such a degree of unconsclousness
that he can be reused only by physical
effort, that last dim mental conviction
is that he can whip any three or four
men in the house. In that state, with
all the higher nerve centers paralyzed,
and the motor centers controlling his
limb movements benumbed, he, merci-
fully for himself. falls asleep. Had IL
been possible for him to have gone on
10 another one or two drinks, the CEN
ters of circulation and respiration, at
the top of the spinal cord, would have
been paralyzed, killing him more
quickly than arsenic would have done.
From ten minutes to one hour is the
period in which a man may die from
too much whiskey, while a man taking
arsenic may live from four TO twenty
four hours. AS to how much whiskey
is deadly dose depends a good deal
upon the size of man and the guam
uty of blood In his body. A drink OF
whiskey that a grown man may take
safely will kill child, and on an aver
age in this country four or FIVE chill
dren a year are killed in this way by
finding whiskey and drinking from bot
tie or glass. In such a death there f.
no pain; the person simply dross into
Inconsistencies, and his breath gets