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PERCENTAGE of ALCOHOL in BLOOD.

0.18-0.34 CONFUSION. Disturb-
ance of sensation. De-
creased pain sense. Stag-
gering gait. Slurred
speech.

STUPOR. Marked de-
crease in response to
stimuli. Muscular inco-
ordination. Approach-
ing paralysis.

COMA. Complete un-
consciousness. Depress-
ed reflexes. Subnormal
temperature. Anesthes-
ia. Impairment of cir-
culation.

0.45- DEATH.

As an illustration of the amount
of liquor to arrive at the various
stages of intoxication, it is said that
2 ounces of whisky or two bottles
of beer will produce a concentration
of alcohol in the blood of .05 per
cent. But 6 to 7 ounces of whisky or
the same number of bottles of beer
will increase the concentration to
about .15 per cent. A chart has been
produced showing that an adult
male, drinking 10 ounces of whisky,
will reach a concentration of .15 per
cent in one hour, but after the sec-
ond hour it will increase to .2 per
cent without taking any more liquor.

0.27-0.43

0.36-0.53

HEAD OFFICE

TWENTIETH EDITION

Transmission lines from Kimberley,
energy to major metal mining operati
the Crows’ Nest Pass and the Cities

Hydro Plants—Elko, B.C., and Bull River, B.C.

ee Dry ¢ Decent™

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4 6 8 19 12

CONCENTRATION OF ALCOHOL IN BLOOD
OF 165 Ib MALE AFTER 100z5 WHISKEY

It will be 12 hours before his blood
is entirely freed from alcohol. We
heard a lecture some time ago given
by Dr. Jetter of the Harvard Medical
School, in which he described alco-
hol as ‘‘the inhibitor of inhibitions.”
Explaining further, he told his audi-
tors that all those restraints which
civilized people adopt in their nor-
mal way of life, are relaxed, and the
primitive instincts of the individual
predominate, because his reasoning
powers are failing him.

As an interesting sidelight to the
discussion of alcohol in the blood,
we learned recently from a Polish
doctor many lives had been saved
by making patients hopelessly drunk.
It appears after the bombing of War-
saw in 1940, Poland, overrun by
Nazi armies requisitioning all avail-
able food supplies, faced famine.
Meat was scarcely available at any
price, and pork was considered a rare
luxury. At the time, a disease known
as trichinosis was rife among the few
hogs being slaughtered for market.
This condition, which easily passes
on to consumers of the meat, affects
the muscular system throughout, and
particularly the heart, the diaphragm
and calf muscles. The trichina are
small organisms or maggots which
infest and devour the muscular tis-

tenay Power Company,

B.C., to Bellevue, Alberta, supply electrical
ons at Kimberley; the important Coal Mines in
and Towns of the East Kootenay District.

Steam Plant—Sentinel, Alta.

sues, lay eggs, then die to form a pol-
son which naturally enters the blood
stream.

Meat from hogs suffering from
trichinosis contained active eggs. Un-
less the pork was sufficiently cured,
or properly cooked, the still potent
eggs were passed on to the consumer,
where they hatched and attacked
their new host. The organisms mul-
tiplied rapidly and wrought havoc
among the many victims. Deaths
from trichinosis were of daily occur-
rence in the overcrowded hospitals.
Every available remedy was tried
without success. The plundered
country had little to offer in medical
supplies, and doctors watched help-
lessly as the emaciated victims died,
literally riddled with trichniz. Then
one day it was discovered that the
trichina was alergic to alcohol. The
doctors, knowing the patients had
nothing to lose and everything to
gain, decided to try an alcohol treat-
ment for recently infected cases.
Spirits were administered as a bever-
age in large doses. Patients began to
recover. A mote vigorous applica-
tion of the alcohol treatment was
then tried out on advanced cases. A
mixture of one-third grain alcohol
to two-thirds water was injected
into the blood stream in 5 c.c. doses.

Lid.

FERNIE, B.C.

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