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PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL. 



Apparently standing and the genuflections are accompanied by about 

 the same pulse-rate at the end as at the beginning of a 3-hour session. 

 It is undoubtedly owing to the interplay of these same physical activi- 

 ties that the average retardation in the normal rest-pulse of these 

 experiments is approximately one-third of what it was in the associa- 

 tion experiments which were free from violent physical activity. 



Notwithstanding this difference in the experimental conditions, it is 

 conspicuous that in every case the average retardation after alcohol is 



TABLE 42. Summary of average pulse differences. 1 

 [Values given in thousandths of a second.] 



Differences equal periods 1-2, 1-3, 1-4, etc. 



