Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-11-20

Portable. 1t is not even a necessary use
in those instances. Alcohol could bexab-
'soMtely eliminated from all use today,
and not single life would be lost in, cpn-
sequence. ID
paralyzes the Higher Faculticss
prof. o. Schemiedeberg, of the Uni
versity of Strassburg one OF the leading
pharmacologists of the world and
pioneer in the study of the effects OF al
eohol, has pointed out that an overdose
of alcohol paralyzes the powers oIgat-
tention, judgment, reflection, and con
ception first, while the remaining fusic-
dons may remain substantially NORMAL
4 consideration of this conclusion will
explain why it is that tine soldier may
appear brave when the restraining in
Huenee of prudence and caution have
been paralyzed; why the orator, who or
dinarily finds himself at Il loss what to
say in public, may lose all sense or the
presence of crowd and speak freely.
and why the drunken man may appear
to be endowed with almost super nuinan
strength when, as a matter of fact. the
sober man has too much sense 10 at
tempt the muscular feats be will Wiling
ly perform or attempt to perform. OF
course, such feats are accompanied with
Il corresponding muscular exhaustion, to
say nothing of the danger of Injury
which accompanies their performance.
"Aleohol taken in moderation, is not
necessarily bad. l have indicated that it
is not indispensable to medicine. afand
A,bo -
necessary, and l have also indicated that
CHASING it as a fopd, it is haEmful
food. The only excuse, the only reason
for its use at all, is an aesthetic one-the
pleasure one gets from taking it, Beers
and wines possess clements of nutrition
without regard to the presence of aIco-
hol. II it can be said that alconol in
beer and wines is an element of food.
the reply is that it is the most expensive
form of food that can be bought.
AZ think those who have studied the
problem of insanity in this and other
countries generally agree that the three
main causes for it are alcohol syphilis
and heredity. | would not undertake to
say which Of the three causes is the
most potent toward this undesirable end,
but | am inclined to believe thatd the
presence of alcohol is frequently "a con-
tributofY factor in the contraction of
syphilis, besides the harm done on its
own account.
ITO the chemist alcohol belongs to
group of substances known as indiffer-
ent narcotics, that is, it is neither acid
nor alkali. Its action on the system de-
pends to a large extent upon its salubili-
ty in fat and fat-lke substances. For IN
stance. if YOU will put alcohol, fat. and
water together, you will eventually find
that most of the alcohol has been ABB
sorbed by the fat, The same process oc-
ours III the human body and affords the
reason for the attack of alcohol on tine
higher centres first. The nerve tissues
contain more fat in proportion than any
other part of the anatomical machinery.
except the fat tissue proper. If yous skill
an animal by an overdose of alcohol lyou
will find more OF IL in the brain and the
nervous system than in the muscles or
glands. Teh same thing is true of ohio
roform and ether Relatively. tire bro
portion of these substances necessary to
bring on narcosis is in proportion to their
solubiiity in fat as compared with wa ter.
at is well known fact that cold
blooded animals are less susceptible to
these substances than warm-blopded
ones A frog. for instance. requires a
greater amount of any one of them.
weight for weight. than a warm-blooded
animal. However, if you first warih up
the frog the substances become pore
soluble in fat and the proportion is,cor-
rospondingly reduced. New York Post.
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