ALCOHOL AND THE MUSCLES.
Dr. Destree has mac7e a number of experiments to determine whether more work can be accomplished with alcohol than without it. The results obtained were uniform, and clearly showed that:—
1, Alcohol has favourable effects on the work product whether the muscle is weary or not.
2. This favourable effect appears almost immediately, but is very transitory.
3. Immediately afterward alcohol has a "very decided paralysing effect. About a half-hour after taking alcohol the muscular power reaches a maximum that subsequent doses increase with difficulty.
4. The paralysing effect of alcohol outweighs the momentary stimulation, so that the total work product obtained with the use of alcohol is less than that obtained without. In other words, alcohol is a deceptive means of dulling the sense of fatigue, but its action is momentary, and in the end injurious, the paralysing effect upon the nervous system increasing rapidly, and with such force that any momentary good effect cannot counterbalance them.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 184, 4 August 1900, Page 2 (Supplement)
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