Abstract
To the Editor:— Referring to the letter on this subject inThe Journal, April 23, page 1386, it is to be questioned whether Dr. Reinke has given indication of experience that justifies him in deprecating laboratory methods of determining intoxication. Dr. Reinke's first point was that the personal equation of various drinkers was not sufficiently considered. He believes that the alcoholic brain concentration lethal for an infant would not have nearly so deleterious an effect on a drunkard. What has such a surmise to do with alcoholic drivers? The articles Dr. Reinke refers to did show, at least, that there are among adults definite levels of concentration of alcohol beyond which a state of intoxication or actual drunkenness is present. Reference was made in one of the articles to the fact that these levels were the same whether found in habitues or in occasional drinkers, since increased toleration is due
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