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SEIvECTIONS. 435 dependent upon alcohol for its preparation, but it enters largely into the manufacture of countless subsidiary necessities. It is therefore the duty of the medical profession to support the Boutelle free alcohol law now before Congress. As it is now, industrial alcohol and alcohol for beverages are treated alike, both being classed as distilled spirits and subjected to a tax of $i.io on the proof gallon of 50-per-cent. alcohol, and as commercial alcohol is 94 per cent, this subjects the product to a tax of $2.17 per gallon. So the American manufacturer commences to compete with his European rival with alcohol costing him over $2.25 a gallon, while his European competitor uses a product costing 15 cents a gallon. In a recent number of the Scientific American a writer records some uses to which cheap alcohol would apply, and some of the purposes for which it is used in countries where it is not taxed. It is a better fuel for the automobile than gasoline. It is preferable for domestic cooking and heating, and as an illuminant when used with the incandescent mantle it rivals the electric light. Alcohol enters into a thousand manufactured articles, such as varnishes, lacquers, bronzes. It is used as a solvent in straw goods, in hats, and fine shoes. It takes one and a quarter pounds of alcohol to make one pound of smokeless powder, and the present tax doubles the cost of this commodity, and so increases public taxation. In the color industry, in woolen goods, in printer's ink, and in dyeing it enters largely, and many industries have been driven out of the country because of its dearness. The automobile will probably never be satisfactorily propelled until alcohol is used for combustion purposes, and the doctor and the automol)ile will never be harmoniously united until this is.brought about. There is abundant reason why we should advocate reform. The dangers to temperance can be easily compassed by certain wise and simple restrictions. The pharmaceutical trade may well say, "Give us free alcohol and we will beat the world."— Medical Age. Blank Cartridge Tetanus. D. H. Dolley, Cleveland, Ohio, {Journal of the A. M. A.., February 11), has investigated blank cartridges from several makers with special reference to their bacteriologic contents, employing cultural and incubation, as well as microscopic methods. The findings were rather negative as regards the tetanus bacillus, but the Bacillus areo genes capsulatus (Welch) was present in a large proportion of the cartridges examined. Notwithstanding this fact tetanic symptoms developed in a number of the animals inoculated, and in still other animals inoculated from cultures from these. His conclusions are: I. B acterogenes capsulatus (Welch) is present in a large proportion of the wads of the three makes of the cartrides examined. 2. The wads 01 the Peters Company, inoculated in rats, guina-pigs and rabbits, produced characteristic symptoms of tetanus, 3. The powder of the three varieties of cartridges examined were negative for B. tetani and B. aerogenes capsulatus. 4. My efforts of isolation of B. tetani from the wads have so far been unsuccessful. 5. There is abundant evidence, from clinical observations and animal experiments, that the wads of certain blank cartridges contain B. tetani. He says that Dr. Welch told him that he considered it diagnostic to see an animal in convulsions.
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Fixed Title * | NCHH-20: The Carolina Medical Journal [1900-1908] |
Document Title | The Carolina Medical Journal [1900-1908] |
Subject Topical | Medicine -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical Other | Medicine -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Publisher | Charlotte, N.C. : Carolina Medical Journal, 1900-1908. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1905 |
Identifier | NCHH-20-052 |
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Language | English |
Rights | This item is part of the North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection. Some materials in the Collection are protected by U.S. copyright law. This item is presented by the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for research and educational purposes. It may not be republished or distributed without permission of the Health Sciences Library. |
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Fixed Title * | Page 435 |
Document Title | The Carolina Medical Journal [1900-1908] |
Subject Topical | Medicine -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical Other | Medicine -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Publisher | Charlotte, N.C. : Carolina Medical Journal, 1900-1908. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1905 |
Identifier | NCHH-20-052-0461 |
Form General | Periodicals |
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Language | English |
Rights | This item is part of the North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection. Some materials in the Collection are protected by U.S. copyright law. This item is presented by the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for research and educational purposes. It may not be republished or distributed without permission of the Health Sciences Library. |
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Volume Number | 52 |
Issue Number | 6 |
Page Number | 435 |
Health Discipline | Medicine |
Full Text | SEIvECTIONS. 435 dependent upon alcohol for its preparation, but it enters largely into the manufacture of countless subsidiary necessities. It is therefore the duty of the medical profession to support the Boutelle free alcohol law now before Congress. As it is now, industrial alcohol and alcohol for beverages are treated alike, both being classed as distilled spirits and subjected to a tax of $i.io on the proof gallon of 50-per-cent. alcohol, and as commercial alcohol is 94 per cent, this subjects the product to a tax of $2.17 per gallon. So the American manufacturer commences to compete with his European rival with alcohol costing him over $2.25 a gallon, while his European competitor uses a product costing 15 cents a gallon. In a recent number of the Scientific American a writer records some uses to which cheap alcohol would apply, and some of the purposes for which it is used in countries where it is not taxed. It is a better fuel for the automobile than gasoline. It is preferable for domestic cooking and heating, and as an illuminant when used with the incandescent mantle it rivals the electric light. Alcohol enters into a thousand manufactured articles, such as varnishes, lacquers, bronzes. It is used as a solvent in straw goods, in hats, and fine shoes. It takes one and a quarter pounds of alcohol to make one pound of smokeless powder, and the present tax doubles the cost of this commodity, and so increases public taxation. In the color industry, in woolen goods, in printer's ink, and in dyeing it enters largely, and many industries have been driven out of the country because of its dearness. The automobile will probably never be satisfactorily propelled until alcohol is used for combustion purposes, and the doctor and the automol)ile will never be harmoniously united until this is.brought about. There is abundant reason why we should advocate reform. The dangers to temperance can be easily compassed by certain wise and simple restrictions. The pharmaceutical trade may well say, "Give us free alcohol and we will beat the world."— Medical Age. Blank Cartridge Tetanus. D. H. Dolley, Cleveland, Ohio, {Journal of the A. M. A.., February 11), has investigated blank cartridges from several makers with special reference to their bacteriologic contents, employing cultural and incubation, as well as microscopic methods. The findings were rather negative as regards the tetanus bacillus, but the Bacillus areo genes capsulatus (Welch) was present in a large proportion of the cartridges examined. Notwithstanding this fact tetanic symptoms developed in a number of the animals inoculated, and in still other animals inoculated from cultures from these. His conclusions are: I. B acterogenes capsulatus (Welch) is present in a large proportion of the wads of the three makes of the cartrides examined. 2. The wads 01 the Peters Company, inoculated in rats, guina-pigs and rabbits, produced characteristic symptoms of tetanus, 3. The powder of the three varieties of cartridges examined were negative for B. tetani and B. aerogenes capsulatus. 4. My efforts of isolation of B. tetani from the wads have so far been unsuccessful. 5. There is abundant evidence, from clinical observations and animal experiments, that the wads of certain blank cartridges contain B. tetani. He says that Dr. Welch told him that he considered it diagnostic to see an animal in convulsions. |
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