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The Poisonous Effects of Alcohol

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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 6, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 17.

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The Poisonous Effects of Alcohol

M. Girard says that the grain spirit would be fairly wholesome if it were sufficiently rectified; but this is, it appears, never the case. As for the other forms of alcohol enumerated, they are one and all charged with poisonous elements of the most deadly character—acids, ethers, and essential oils—and M. Girard attributes the increase of insanity in certain of the departments mainly to the growing consumption of this vile stuff.—St. James's Gazette.