The entrance of the motion picture house into the arena is indeed striking, the first enemy of King Alcohol with real power where that king has deepest hold.
When the use of alcohol is treason, what will become of those all but unbroken lines of slum saloons?
In this process the amine salt is dissolved in absolute alcohol and diazotized by the addition of amyl nitrite; a crystalline precipitate of the diazonium salt is formed on standing, or on the addition of a small quantity of ether.
Well-dried hydroxylamine hydrochloride is dissolved in methyl alcohol and mixed with sodium methylate; a solution of methyldichloramine in absolute ether is then added and an ethereal solution of diazomethane distils over.
This cirrhotic process usually follows long-continued irritation, such as is produced by too much alcohol absorbed from the bowel habitually, the organ gradually becoming harder in texture and smaller in bulk.
When heated with water it forms ethyl hydroxy-acetate; with alcohol it yields ethyl ethoxyacetate.
They dissolve easily in water, but only to a slight extent in alcohol and ether.
The evils which are connected with the drinking habit are gigantic; thousands of lives and many more thousands of households are the victims every year; disease and poverty and crime grow up where alcohol drenches the soil.
The psychological outcome would be twofold: certain effects of alcohol which serve civilization would be lost; and, on the other hand, much more harmful substitutions would set in.
It was a well-known philosopher who coupled Christianity and alcohol as the two great means of mankind to set us free from pain.
If so, are the stimulants it obtains in default of alcohol more harmful, broadly considered, than is alcohol itself?
It is the optimistic exuberance of life, the emotional inspiration, which alcohol brought into the dulness of human days, and the history of culture shows it on every page.
Of course, alcohol before serious intellectual work disturbs me; but hearing a hurdy-gurdy in the street or thinking of the happy news which a letter has just brought to me, or feeling angry over any incident, disturbs me just as much.
The Case Psychologically Psychologically the case stands thus: alcohol has indeed an inhibitory influence on mind and body.
If a moderate use of alcohol can help in this most useful blockade, it is an ally and not an enemy.
Even the smallest dose of alcohol is for them nothing but evil, and triumphantly they seize on isolated statements of physiologists who acknowledge that every dose of alcohol has a certain influence on the brain.
The physician may ask whether and when alcohol is real medicine, and the physiologist may study whether it is a food and whether it is rightly taken as helpful to nutrition; but this is not our problem.
But again this same effect, as far as the temperate use of alcohol is in question, may result from many other sources of social unrest.
Perhaps the odour of alcohol predominated; Lanyard thought of a steam-heated wine-cellar.
If too much alcohol was bad, too much brooding was infinitely worse for the German temperament.
Alcohol had changed him from a thing limp and hopeless into Ocky Waffles.
The fear, in Peter's voice pierced through the fog of alcohol and reached Ocky's intellect.
There was the stale smell of alcohol and wet clothes about him.
In this door-check there may be a mixture of water, alcohol and glycerine, the alcohol to prevent freezing in cold weather, and the glycerine to give body to the mixture so it will not flow through the valves too freely.
It is probably safe to assume, however, that, on the whole, alcohol will be found to stand somewhat apart from other narcotics, and for the reason that it is not a pure narcotic but also an irritant.
This prophet of what some may think a blasphemous Imperialism gives his name to the association which frankly in this matter of alcohol stands for gold as against life.
Sullivan points out, alcohol "might certainly be adjudged a salutary evil if its incidence were limited to individuals whose extreme inferiority of organisation renders them wholly undesirable and useless to the community.
Or suppose that instead of a scar on the scalp the father has an inflammatory change, not so dissimilar to a scar, produced by alcohol in the membranes covering his brain.
Alcohol is pre-eminently the racial poison, thus defined, and I plead for its recognition as primarily a racial poison, this being immeasurably the most important aspect of the whole alcohol question.
Now since alcoholweeds out enormous numbers of people of a particular type, it is a stringent agent of selection--an agent of selection more stringent than any one disease.
But doesalcohol also make degenerates; does it even make more degenerates than it destroys?
Alcohol taken into the stomach can be demonstrated in the testicle or ovary within a few minutes, and, like any other poison, may injure the sperm or the germ element therein contained.
According to the relative quantity of alcohol either an exciting or a depressing influence might be exerted, either of which would lead to abnormal development.
She supposed that the amount of alcohol they had consumed since seven o'clock had something to do with his verging upon the vein, the Broadway sentimental vein, that he had got started on and couldn't seem to let alone.
The alcohol in her own veins was responsible for this.
After soaking in this long enough to allow the alcohol to diffuse out, the material may be lifted into a bath of melted paraffin (melting at, say, 51° C.
This is easily got over by adding a little soap oralcohol to the water, or exercising a little patience.
The water film drags the alcohol after it, and by waiting a few minutes and then adding a few more drops of alcohol, the water may be practically entirely removed, especially if a bit of filter paper be held against the lower end of the tube.
In nearly all cases where alcohol is not to be employed very strong joints may be made by shellac.
When this happens the ebonite may be improved by scrubbing with hot water, or washing freely with alcohol rubbed on with cotton waste in the case of apparatus that cannot be dismounted.
The best orange shellac must be dissolved in good cold alcohol by shaking the materials together in a bottle.
A few drops of very pure alcohol poured in above the mercury often cures this defect.
In this case an alcohol wash bottle should be used, and a little alcohol squirted into the top of the tube all round the circumference.
When the tube is successfully prepared so far as the glassblowing goes it may be rinsed with strong pure alcohol both inside and out, and dried.
If the plate be new and clean, a little resin or its solution in alcohol is all that is necessary as a flux.
In general, if the paint be ground to the consistency of very thick cream with ordinary shellac varnish it will be found to work well when reduced by alcohol to a free painting consistency.
The alcohol is made sufficiently pure by starting with rectified spirit and digesting it in a tin flask over quick-lime for several days, a reversed condenser being attached.
Afterwards the tube may be gently warmed and a current of air allowed to pass, so as to prevent alcohol distilling from one part of the tube to another.
After, say, thirty hours' digestion, the alcohol may be distilled off and employed to act on the shellac.
Carefully-purified alcohol may in some cases be employed where it is desired to dry the tube or apparatus quickly.
The fishes and other animals preserved in alcohol are kept in a special fire-proof "spirit-building.
Ether, nitrous oxid, and alcohol produce an increased acidity of the blood which is proportional to the depth of anesthesia.
In our experiments, alcohol in large and repeated dosage caused marked morphologic changes in the brain-cells which went as far even as the destruction of some of the cells (Fig.
There is no more alcohol in my system than there is in a glass of spring water.
The thought of putting alcohol into my system is as absent from my mind as is the thought of putting benzine into it, or gasoline, or taking a swig of shoe-polish.
The same process has to be gone through in the drying of a spiritous or alcoholic varnish, but it is so much the more rapid in consequence of there being only the alcohol to disperse, leaving the resin in a comparatively dry state.
The solution of gamboge in alcohol is, when used alone, too weak or insufficient in body; it is therefore advisable to incorporate with it some other material of a resinous or gummy nature, but such as will not impair the transparency.
That night Pastiri was saturated with alcohol and had lost all power of speech.
When the experiment of treating accidents and disease without the administration of alcohol was first mooted, the idea was assailed with a storm of criticism in which the medical profession found a most active ally in the public Press.
The mating time is the best time to use it and the matrix from a female wolf in alcohol is very good to use.
In the summer I gather up four or five bitch dogs and as fast as they come in heat I kill them and take the organs of generation and pickle them in wide mouth bottles with alcohol enough to cover.
Add half an ounce of assafoetida, dissolved in alcohol and one ounce of tincture of Siberian musk, or, if this cannot be procured, one ounce of pulverized beaver castor or one ounce of the common musk sold for perfumery.
After it is thoroughly decomposed, add an ounce of assafoetida dissolved in alcohol to each pound of the decoy.
The manufacture of fuel alcohol from pine sawdust is a new industry in connection with the sawmills in Texas and Louisiana.
Not an item forgotten--even a bottle of alcoholfor the fuel!
It is generally best to gently wipe the edge of the cover glass with a small brush moistened with alcohol before applying the cement.
When it is desired to preserve as perfectly as possible the more delicate plant structures for future study, strong alcohol is the best and most convenient preserving agent.
For examining the microscopic structure of the pine, fresh material is for most purposes to be preferred, but alcoholic material will answer, and as the alcohol hardens the resin, it is for that reason preferable.
The alcohol drives out the air, which otherwise interferes badly with the examination.
After carefully spreading out the specimens in this mixture, allow a drop of alcohol to fall upon the preparation, and then put on the cover glass.
Sometimes care must be taken to bring it gradually into the alcohol to avoid collapsing.
These chloroplasts, like those of other plants, are not noticeably different in structure from the ordinary protoplasm, as is shown by extracting the chlorophyll, which may be done by placing the plants in alcohol for a short time.
One more fact must be emphasized in connection with business management: alcohol is needed to keep the inmates to their task; but even more essential from the business standpoint are drugs.
We cannot give figures as to the exact number who used alcohol or cigarettes in moderation.
If the tint does not appear distinct, infusions of the corollas inalcohol will present tones unmistakably yellow or red, etc.
For instance, a method of making alcohol from acetylene is patented abroad, and by another patented process it is proposed to make sugar from acetylene.
The treatment by injection of alcohol is superior to the resection of branches of the nerve, for though relapses occur after the treatment with alcohol, renewed freedom from pain may be obtained by its repetition.
When cutting is objected to, they may be painted night and morning with salicylic collodion, the epidermis being dehydrated with alcohol before each application.
Harris recommends the injection of alcoholinto the semilunar ganglion.
Alcohol should be withheld, unless failing of the pulse strongly indicates its use, and then it should be given along with the food.
The ophthalmic division should not, however, be treated in this manner, for the alcohol may escape into the orbit and endanger other nerves in this region.
Alcohol is used to cleanse the broken surface, and dry absorbent dressings are applied and frequently changed.
The severe pain which the alcohol causes may be lessened, after the needle has penetrated to the necessary depth, by passing a few cubic centimetres of a 2 per cent.
These lesions are specially apt to occur in those who smoke, drink undiluted alcohol or spirits, or eat hot condiments to excess, or who have irregular, sharp-cornered teeth.
The strength of the alcohol should be 85 per cent.
The alcohol acts by destroying the nerve fibres, and must be brought into direct contact with them; if the nerve has been properly struck the injection is followed by complete anæsthesia in the distribution of the nerve.
They are cut with a sharp hollow-ground razor or with Thiersch's grafting knife, the blade of which is rinsed in alcohol and kept moistened with warm saline solution.
