Show ALCOHOL AS A FOOD THE NCE CE PEOPLE hf hays ha fe be HeR a gw THE TRE I agitated over owr a proposition laid down dowa tone e time ago w y Professor W O 0 Atwater that alcohol is isa isa isa a food and aid that at in m reasonable quantities it is H a benefit ne it rather than t R a z detriment to t human system Now comes Dr Frederic Fre eric S Lee of the t New York College Collage of and nd Surgeons and nd 0 1 Dr De William Slant of the same city to who thoroughly endorse the position taken by It Pr Atwater These TheO gentlemen haw lune been hoen confining confiDing their experiments entirely to f fr fro ro s but I ut they assert u ert with wit great greet that thai alcohol is food According to Public Opinion five fire Distinct effects were noted no as a result reuh of the injection of a moderate quantity of alcohol First the t e action of the muscles was MS s quickened second the number of contractions was increased td i third the number of relaxations was fourth the rapacity of tho the muscles for work was increased ino and aDd nf Mth th the fatigue of the was delayed The rite TI comparison in each case cese was ws made with wish the muscle in a normal s state taie Xo So exact estimate of the increased working world g ability of the muscle was made It varied sometimes mea fo per cent centA centA centI I A point that was waa not cleared up was as as se to which nf 11 the three parts of he she muscle the muscle fiber ber tl the e nerve Iber ber or the motor end was affected by the alco alcohol leo hol From their experiments the doctors reached hed tho the conclusion that the e effect of alcohol upon the muscle is j 8 to make it a better organism giving giring it more energy en I and ud more power It is asserted a further that the die alco alcohol hol ol is absorbed in the same manner manlier ae as food Before concluding their work Drs Lee Leo and went wen to the theother theother other extreme They dosed a frog with alcohol until it was stupid and observed that the tm e t was to take takeaway takeaway takeaway away power from tom the muscle le leIt It is i a pity the experimenters examine the stomach of the frog to see ee ee how ho that was wai affected by bydie bythe bythe the die alcohol We fe T have ve seen some terribly s pictures of the stomachs of people who died d ed front from alco alcoholism hol holism m They showed Bho that the stomachs lining was al almost I 1 ImoS most moS entirely destroyed supposedly by the stimulant The rite results reached by the New Yorkers are arr re by no n means K conclusive They ney must cover coer a iii wider range in their work before they 1 in iD convincing doubters that thai in any quantity however r minute is bene bone beneto to 0 the human system 0 |