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to distinguish pure ethanol from the others, particularly

pentanol, because there are radical difference between their

effects. Indeed pure ethanol, boiling at 79¡, evaporates from

the lungs almost as soon as it is ingested; it only traverses

the body, so to speak; amyl acohol, on the contrary, stops at

140¡, so that at human body temperature, it almost never

evaporates. Once introduced into the body, it remains there

and accumulates there, the daily amount added to that of the

day before and two days before that, as those have been

added to previous amounts. No matter how weak the

quantity taken each day, the body ends up accumulating a

considerable quantity of this toxic alcohol. (The Time of

September 21, 1894.)

xxxx Those are the unhealthy effects of bad alcohols, especially

the amyl essences contained in all the potato, grain, and

beet alcohols, which are absent in spirits distilled from wine

such as are exclusively used in the House of Pernod Fils.

xxxx To summarize this chapter, we thus can, without hazard

to ourselves, venture the following propositions:

xxxx If the absinthe is distilled carefully, it constitutes a tonic

and refreshing drink; its abuse can become a problem,

because it contains much alcohol, but the people who make

moderate use of this drink represent proof of its salutatory

effects.

xxxx The absinthe made by certain distillers is a simple mixture,

cold-processed, using duplicated alcohol and essences, the

whole colored by chemical means.

(Translated by "Artemis" for your pleasure.)

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