Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 233, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1913 — ODD CAUSED OF INTOXICATION [ARTICLE]

ODD CAUSED OF INTOXICATION

Fruit and Vegetables Capable of Having Disaatroua Effect on the Nervous System. Those who cannot resist the temptation of too many strawberries should not be surprised if they are attached with ‘‘fruit for it is an extraordinary fact that the excessive eating of strawberries often results in many of the sensations connected with alcohol attacking the eater. These symptoms consist of giddiness, headache, blurred sight and occasionally double vision. For strawberries contain far more acid than most of the other fruits in season at the same time, and this Juice acts very quickly on the nervous system, especially in the case of stout and full-blooded people. Excessive rhubarb eating can also produce symptoms of intoxication, owing to the excess of oxalic acid which lurks in this fruit. But this is only one of the many ways in which symptoms of drunkenness can be developed, apart .from excess of alcohol. It is quite possible to become temporarily intoxicated by excess of emotion, whether it be sorrow, Joy or music. The explanation is that deep emotion deranges the nerve centers, which are thrown out of unißon with each other, bo that such actions as walking and talking become difficult. An invalid who lives on diet for come considerable time, and then suddenly has a huge meal, can quite easily get symptoms of drunkenness on a chop or steak. Strong coffee on an empty stomach blbo produces results similar to alcohol, whilßt the fumes of turpentine are very liable to render you lightheaded. Recently six men were reduced to a rolling condition while uploading a cargo of this spirit from a barge at Bristol, England. 1