EFFECT OF ALCOHOL
LEADING SURGEON'S OPINION
(United Press Association)
(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) MELBOURNE, September 12. (Received Sept. 12, at 7 p.m.) " Anyone who has one drop - of alcohol in a thousand or nought point one per cent, in his blood produces symp-. toms of being under the influence of alcohol. A percentage of nought point five of alcohol in the blood, or one drop of alcohol in 500 drops of blond, puts, a person in a condition of coma or 'dead drunk.'" Addressing the National Temperance League's annual breakfast, held to-day in conjunction with the B.M.A. Conference, Mr W. M'Adam Ecelcs, on« of England's most foremost surgeons, made those statements.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22675, 13 September 1935, Page 8
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