Evening Star Newspaper, August 27, 1931, Page 11

POISONS IN LIQUOR FATAL TOAMIMALS & Experiments at G. W. U. Show Effects of Impurities in Still Products. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. Although mconshiners hereabouts are improving their technique, it still is risky to drink anything from the boot- | legger's without having it analyzed by & reputable chemist. Many filicit distillers remain sadly fgnorant of the chemisiry of alcohols, %0 that virulent poisons ere getting into thelr preducts without their knowl- edge, it is shown by experiments now | in progress at the George Washington University Medical School. Cats, rabbits and chickens are hav- ing some glorious “drunks” all with fatal terminations, in one of the labor- atories there. Animals Given Test Liquor. These ordinarily sober animals are being given their fill of the choicest poisons dispensed by the National Capi- tal's bootleggers in an effort to fin out just what the poisons do to their insides—so that when the coroner’s assistant gets a hurry-up call to the morgue, he can tall with some degree of certainty what was in the ‘‘stuff” the victim drank, which killed him. Dr. Oscar B. Hunter, assistant dean of the -Medical School, is conducting the experiments.. Prohibition, Dr. Hun- ter says, has brought about an entirely | new pathology. Different poisons in liquor attack different organs and cause deaths or disability in different ways. The only way to find out how -each one acts is to try it out on the lower animals. Rabbits are Mally good subjects. ‘They are given the ordinary greens of their diet. to which liquor samples are | added. Rubber tubes are placed down their throats and the liquors, or the poisons cbtained from them, poured into ther stomachs. After a preseribed time on this diet they die or are killed | and the doctors study the effects on | their organs. The doctors figure that approximately the same things would happen to a man. Poisons of Bacterial Origin. Analysis of the liquor samples, Dr. Hunter says, shows that the poisons are larg:ly of bacterial origin and are due to unsanitary conditions. Distillation of grains under itary ~conditions should produce ethyl alcohcl, paratively safe product. But if certain bacteria get in the product it is likely to contain a large percentage of m:thyl | alcohol. This has a particul’r affinity for the optic nerve and produces blind- ness. lv.llsodoelomerlmnpwme body—as the intoxicated rabbits reveal. Another product is amyl alcohol, or fusil oil, whose most direct effect is inflammation of the stomach. It is some pitiable victims, Dr. Ethyl hes the same moonshiners, 5 Jearned that charcoal absorbs this fusil | ofl end try to get rid of it by using | eply charred kegs and by putting | wdered charcosl into the product. is was the method of the pre-pro- | hibi . distillers, but they allowed | ‘what the ignorant moonshiner | in a few days. As a | the stomach poison | Other becterial products are pmpyl and isg-propyl aicobols, whieh act in | abou’, ways as e;hyl, but are | Besides | alightly I-d ll“ in from mmpzfly made | and may cause very serious re- , Dr. Hu\tzr points due to the ignorance, | apparatus of the Everything Fresh! nshiners, or t.hey may be put in deubenuly to hurry fermentation of the mash without any realization that they also will produce deadly polms Country people have observed | that certain things M to th" ml!h k | source. Some of the vilest, it ns | found,” came from the mountain foot- | hills of Virginia, where corn whisky | has been manufactured for genera- tions and. where certain nitrogenous waste which tremendously speeded fer- mentation had been added to the mash Moonshiners, the in tion shows, are beginning to learn the value of brewers. yeast in hastening fermenta- | tion. This keeps the product nurer |~ The reaction of the steady Ji¢ 1ot diet |on" the rabbits is decidedly ur.nealthy, | Dr. Hunter finds. The various poisons either kill outright or cnuse serious hysical degeneration. The George ngshlngton investigators are_especially interested in the pathological changes. | often microscopic, in the tissues of | stomach, liver, kidneys, testines, Similar_experiments are being car-| |ried on in other medical schools, Dr Hunter said. Until the properties of the liquors which cause death are known and post-mortem examination shows just how they act, physicians | will be at a loss to treat victims. CERMAK BOOMS LEWIS Chicago Mayor Urges Nomination of Senator for President. SPRINGFIELD, Ill., August 27 (#).— Mayor A. J. Cermak of Chicago yester- day called upon Democrats of Illinois t> unite in a campaign for the nomina- | tion_of Senator James Hamilion Lewis brain and in-| INING __STAR, WASHIi} NAVY DATA SOUGAT |2 " INPRICE MYSTERY San Francisco Pollce Ask Testimony Adduced at Hear- ? ing on Woman’s Death. By the Assoclated Press. | SAN FRANCISCO, August 27.—Navy officials today faced a request by San Francisco police for information they obtained at a special inquiry into the | death of Mrs. Daisy Price. wife of Lieut. Comdr. George D. Price, Who | plunged to her death from & hotel | window here early Sunday. Capt. Charles W. Dullea of the Police Inspector’s Bureau, announced he would ask the Navy to furnish all detalls pre- sented before the board of inquiry on the airplane carrier Lexington yesterday. Held Secret Inguiry. 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