It is now generally agreed that alcohol is a narcotic and not a stimulant from the very beginning of its direct action on the central nervous system. The deceptive appearance of stimulation arises from the release'of the lower nervous centres from control of the higher, by the narcotizing of the latter.—Henderson and Gillespie, quoted in “Alcohol—One Man’s Meat.”
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White Ribbon, Volume 19, Issue 5, 1 June 1947, Page 10
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58Untitled White Ribbon, Volume 19, Issue 5, 1 June 1947, Page 10
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