The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-04-20

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BY careful examination OF the mothcr)
soon disappeared. The survivor. es-
pccially ii only ono was left, having 10
competition, thrivcd on the provisions
he would have had to share with broth
ers and sisters had they lived, ard was
born larger than the average.
Similar deaths, with similar effects,
Dir. Stockard surmises, journal OF
Experimental Zoology, 1919 may have
happened in Pearls experiments while
the eggs were still in the hens. II so,
the mortality among the alcoholizel
chicks would have been higher than ap-
peared, and it was reported higher than
among the normals.
The question raised is, was the early
mortality, which actually did oc;nr
among the alcoholized guinea pigs, an
advantage to the stock. Did it wocd
out the unfit and leave only the strons
to breed?
The answer is indicated in the results
of other experiments about which Mi.
Adams, in the role of spokesman for
Science is unaccountably silent.
Among those who preceded Pearl IN
experiments OH fowls eggs was Fere
1888 who subjected two lots of hens
eggs in an incubator to the fumes OF al
cohol for a few days during the first
week and obtained from one lot SIS per
cent undevelopcd and cid per cent mon
STEERS, from the other lot 100 per cert
undeveloped and 2o.8 per cent monsters.
OWE 10000 placed an incubator con-
tanning 100 eggs in a cellar i'll which
wine and brandy we're being distilled and
of the 70 chickens that Matched, Is we're
deformed and 40 died during the first
three or four days u those that did
not hatch, one-third were deformed aid
81 per cent had only partly developed.
Ziegler (Ioo3) treated sea-urchns
eggs with alcohol and obtained delayed
development with per cent, delayed
and abnormal development with , per
cent and no development with 4 per
cent.
Stockard himself repeated Feres ex-
periments with the object of regulating
the treatment so as to get definite types
of defects and succeeded i'll demon
strating that the nervous system AMI the
Organs OF special sense arc most liable
TO impairment Common results we're
abnorrnalities of the eye and retarded
Development of the nervous system.
Coming to experimental work more
recent than Pearls, there arc, besides
Stockard's and others, the notable ones
OF Ada Arlitt Psychological Mono
graphs 26, IoIo) who produced a high
rate Of early mortality, still births, and
sterility in white rats with small daily
doses of alcohol.
Alexander Kostitch university OF
Strassburg, 1920 found by microscope
cal investigation, arrested or abnormal
cell development or disntcgration in the
germ cells OF alcoholized rats.
. DR. Agnes Blum. of Berlin Journal
OF the American Medical Association,
Sept. 2, 1929 experimenting with white
MICE found the alcoholized ones so per
cent sterile
These and other demonstrations OF
the various degrees OF harm alcohol
does to the germ cell leads DIR. Ba.lan-
tyne to say OF the wedding OUT theory
British Medical Journal, August II,
1929
1T is dangerous to argue that al
cohol, by killing off the weak ova, or
embryos or>foetuses is beneficial 10 the
race. If every killing off of the weak
is accompanied by the weakening of the
strong, the race will not gain but lose. >
DR.. Pearls application OF his deduc
tons from his chickens to the effect OF
moderate drinking upon the length O..
human life is more than overthrown by
the recent analysis OF life insurance
statistics by Rogers, showing tina, the
acreage length of life among the most
moderate drinkers is shorter than tho
average longevity OF abstainers