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A STUDY OF THE INFLUENCE 



TABLE SHOWING ABSORPTION OF ALCOHOL FROM STOMACH. 



rapidity of expulsion was found to depend on the state of 

 repletion of the small intestine, an observation in accord 

 with the retarded evacuation of the stomach seen when food is 

 given along with fluids, v. Mering further observed that 

 when water holding CO 2 in solution enters the stomach, the 

 gas is readily absorbed;* alcohol is likewise absorbed, as 

 J. Miller has recently verified for the human stomach.f 

 Og&ta % found that of 6.5-8.8 grams of alcohol introduced into 

 the stomach in wine or beer, 80-90 per cent disappeared within 

 half an hour. In the presence of soluble products in the 

 stomach, an excretion of water by that organ is said to result 

 in proportion to the amount of substance absorbed, an idea 

 akin to the one suggested in explanation of the relatively 

 larger quantities of fluid found in the unligated stomach soon 

 after introduction of alcohol, as compared with water. The 

 experiments which we have made verify the statements of the 

 investigators mentioned, as the following data selected from 

 protocols indicate : 



Cf. also Experiment V., p. 89. 



t Miller, J., Arch, f . Verdauungskrankh., i, p. 233. Jahresbericht f . Thier- 

 chemie, 1895, xxv, p. 293. 



t Ogata, Jahresbericht f . Thierchemie, 1886, XT, p. 274, 





