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Show oo WATER DRUNKARDS Why bciher making wine in the col-1 lar? Water, drunk to excess, is an Intoxicant. In-toxicant. Wait a minute, before bursting burst-ing into laughter. The statement, that water "packs a kick." comes from Or I Leonard G. Rowntroe. He is one of tho BpeclallBts in the clinic conducted conduct-ed by the famous Mayo brothers, at Rochester, Minn Here's how Doc proved it He fed, to experimental patients, extracts from a small ductless gland at the base of the brain This was to increase thirst, make the patient drink excessively. Then ' the patient kept drinking water until ho developed marked head ache, nausea, a staggering gait, unsteadiness un-steadiness of muscle, and Inability to stand or walk, which lasted for a few hours " The final stage of the water Jag, ! as described by Dr Rowntree. is a I companied by convulsions and other I symptoms resembling delirium ire mens. John Barlecorn is not the only in toxicant A cup of' strong coffee con-i con-i tains as hlch as five grains of caffeine. caf-feine. I People whose thyroid glands secrete excesshely often got as much intoxl cation from thyroid IS they could c I out of a pint of whisky So-called "inspiration," when writers and artists art-ists (note the distinction) are crea-l crea-l tive, generally Is a period of thyroid intoxication i uu hum' uu.t Mi'u peuyie uruun on excitement" Dancing sometime? goes to the h-ad, particularly with emotional oung women Baseball spectators frequently act like drunken men. The emotions can bo worked up to such a drunken pitch that nu n r.;n mad with the mob spirit and commit excesses that they would not dream of when emotionally "sober." The intoxication of excitement is caused by excessive secretion by the various endocrine glands ot tho body, especially the adrenals and thyroid. Small wonder, that it is difficult for the nation to agree on what is Intox Icatlng. A quantity of alcohol that would put one person to sleep might have no more effect on another than a bucket of water on a duck's back. Few of us are ever really sober, or normal One day we are, figuratively, a couple of drinks below normal An other day we may be intoxicated with out having taken a drink Exuberance In Intoxication Who knows but what the bootleggers onn of these days may be selling glandular extract? |