Chapter 16

RECENT RESEARCHES UPON ALCOHOL.

Experiments of Laitinen--Resistance of blood-cells to disease lowered by alcohol--International Congress on Alcoholism, London, 1909--Alcohol and Immunity--Effect of Alcohol Drinking on Human Off-spring--Researches of Kraepelin and Aschaffenberg--Economic losses by reduced work through beer and wine drinking--Researches of Dr. Reid Hunt--Mice given alcohol killed by small doses of poison--Difference in effect of alcohol and starch foods--Chittenden on food theory of alcohol--Researches of Dr. S. P. Beebe--Liver impaired by alcohol--Dr. Winfield S. Hall's interpretation of the researches of Beebe and Hunt--Oxidation of alcohol by liver a protective action--Researches show that alcohol is a poison, not a food 392