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The following experiments show that in every case the animal which 
had received alcohol excreted a larger amount of sulphocyanate after 
corresponding amounts of the nitrile than did the normal. The 
guinea pigs on alcohol showed no ill effects whatever from the alcohol; 
they grew as rapidly and had as many young as the controls. 
Date. 
Weight of 
guinea pig. 
Remarks. 
October 4, 1905 
Grams. 
407 
The food consisted largelv of oats and bran 
soaked in 10 per cent alcohol; on about 
October 10, 1905 
430 
ever^’ third day a little green food was given. 
Alcohol increased to 20 per cent. 
October 20, 1905 
470 
Alcohol increased to 30 per cent. 
November 2, 1905 
467 
November 8, 1905 
475 
November 14, 1905 
460 
November 15, 1905 
465 
93 milligrams acetonitrile (0.2 milligram per 
gram weight). Sun-ived. 
On the first tlnee days after the administration of the nitrile the 
follovfing amounts of cvanogen were found in the urine : 
o o 
Day. 
Cyanogen. 
Milligrams. 
First day 8. 2 
Second day 1. 5 
Third day 41. 7 
Total 51.4 
Xinety-three milligrams acetonitrile (the amount injected) con- 
tains 58.96 milligrams cyanogen; hence about 87.2 per cent of the 
cyanogen of the nitrile appeared in the urine as sulphocyanate. 
The control experiment was as follows: 
Date. 
Weight of 
guinea pig. 
Remarks. 
Grams. 
October 4, 1905 
410 
Food as in preceding except that water was 
substituted for the alcohol. 
October 10, 1905 
425 
October 20, 1905 
485 
November 8, 1905 
475 
November 14, 1905 
485 
November 15, 1905 
490 
98 milligrams acetonitrile (0.2 milligram per 
gram) . Sundved . 
