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New Zealand Mail, Issue 5, 25 February 1871, Page 3

Experiments on Aicohol. —The recent experiments conducted by Professor C. Binz, of the University of Bonn, to ascertain the effect of alcohol on the blood and its influence on the circulation, have demonstrated the important fact that in forty-nine experiments made in men and dogs, the result was that in no instance was the temperature raised by alcohol, but in every instance lowered ; and the still more recent experiment of Professor Parks, M.D., of the Army Medical College, and Count Willoniez, assistant-surgeon on the Army Medical Staff, on the general effect of alcohol on the human body, tend to establish other important facts in harmony with the teaching of temperance reformers, and to confirm the conclusions of Dr Richardson in his fourth report on methyls to the British Scientific Association, viz.: That all alcohol liquors are depressants j and though at first, by calling injuriously into play the natural force, they seem to excite, and are therefore called stimulants, they themselves apply no force at any time, but take up force, by which means they lead to exhaustion and paralysis of power.