Effect of alcohol on psycho-physiological functions / by Walter R. Miles.

  • Miles, Walter R. (Walter Richard), 1885-1978.
Date:
1918
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    a lengthened respiration. ‘This is not true in the second and third periods for the pre-tetanus condition, in which we have —3.8 and 0 per cent, but applies to the third and fourth periods of pre-tetanus (+19.2 and +28.1 per cent) and for all periods of post-tetanus (+15.1, +12.1, +15.1, and +15.1 per cent). The respiration data taken with pulse records | to 7, inclusive, of the experimental cycle are recorded in table 25. Here the averages for the first period are the same for alcohol and non-alcohol days, 2. e., 3.0 seconds. The average for all of the normal periods, exclusive of the first, is 2.9 seconds, while the comparison average for alcohol days is 2.8 seconds. The average respiration on the alcohol days in periods 2 and 3 isa little longer than for the same periods on the normal days, but the difference is insignificant. The effect of alcohol as shown by per cent differences is +3.3, 0, —13.8, —16.7, and 0 per cent for periods 2 to 6, respectively. On the whole our supplementary data for respiration- rate, like those collected by Higgins,’ show no definite alcohol effect. TABLE 25.—Length of respiration during pulse measurements Nos. 1 to 7 of experimental cycle. [Values given in seconds.] Period| Period Period Period Period Period Kind of experiment I. a. oe 4. 5. 6. AV. AW. and date. rn One Et ries Av. |Av.| Diff. |Av.| Diff. |Av.| Diff. |Av.| Diff. |Av.| Diff. ee ee ee ee ee eee a = a oo eo 0 bo 69 Nw wo +1+ 1 byw ww CUIMO WOWS | > mmc Alcohol: WIR N mwOHD NwHho NNWN ++ 1 ude wowr NIDDM SCHONH | | oo Ss m | bobo tw bo Cy = t€ iN W bo bo CROC OC) Average...... Effect of alcohol: 1 Higgins, Journ. Pharm. and Exp. Ther., 1917, 9, p. 441.