"A FASHIONABLE BEVERAGE."
Evidence has recently been forthcoming to show that methylated spirit has becoTie fashionable as a beverage for Sunday use, when chemists' shops are open, but hotels are closed, remarks a London paper. But a scientific gentleman has explained to a gathering of dentists that methylated spirit when used as a biivcraßc instead of as a fflel,pi'ota|jafalj3isof the optic
nerve, resulting in total or partial blindness. People get blind drunk literally when they resort to methylated spirit as a "pick-me-up." While the Legislature has been so thoughtful as to insist upon the closing of all hotel bars on Sunday, it has evidently not been thoughtful enough, and it may yet be necessary to inrlict penalties on persons who serve nobblers of methylated spirit over the counter of a chemist's shop on a Sunday.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3081, 31 December 1908, Page 4
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135"A FASHIONABLE BEVERAGE." Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3081, 31 December 1908, Page 4
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