ALCOHOL AND PRIMITIVE MAN

Alcohol and Man. The Effects of Alcohol on Man in Health and Disease

This volume is a symposium on the effects of alcohol on human life. It is not intended as a hand-book for scientists; it is arranged for the educated layman that he might have an adequate and authoritative source of information. It is a book that has value for physicians and nurses, even though they be familiar with the general material. The titles of the six parts of the treatise indicate the ...

Alcohol and Man: The Effects of Alcohol on Man in Health and Disease

clusions as circumspect as possible. The plan of the book is moreover admirably adapted for reaching independent conclusions by analytical and conscientious readers. Basic facts in the physiology and pharmacology of alcohol are first presented. Its effects when used in excess are then discussed both specifically and as a predisposing factor in the production of pathologic processes. This is fol...

Metabolism of alcohol (ethanol) in man.

It is well recognized that the primary alcohol, ethanol, can be absorbed unchanged along the whole length of the digestive tract, that absorption takes place rapidly from the stomach (about zo%), and most rapidly from the small gut (about 80%). T h e rate of absorption after drinking is affected by several factors, for example the volume, concentration (10-2074 solutions are most rapidly absorb...

Alcohol and the fighting man--an historical review.

PART 11 1939 to Present Time In 1940 alcohol abuse in the French Army was the subject of a Symposium shortly before the eclipse of interest in this matter by more urgent purely military problems. Contributors stressed the importance of alcohol in military crime (Hugonot & Hazel, 1940) and its effect in increased mortality from acute infections and in the aetiology of cardiac, pulmonary and nerv...

Quasi-Primitive Rings and Density Theory