There is no conclusive evidence that the functioning of white corpuscles
 is injured by alcohol.

 The nerves are anesthetized by alcohol and thus cannot do their best
work as long as alcohol remains in the blood. Any permanent damage done to
muscles, brain cells, nerves, liver and protoplasm is due to malnutrition
which usually occurs in the excessive drinker due to the fact that he eats
very little,

B. "Perhaps worst of all, alcohol may affect the germ plasm of the parent
 or parents, and cause the infant to begin life as a defective," p. 566

 Again it is not the damage to the germ plasm that hinders prenatal child
development but the lowered physical stamina of the parents through mal-
nutrition, mental unrest, and generally unsatisfactory living conditions.

 The major interest of adolescents centers around how he can get along
well with people, be popular, get a date, get a job. All of these vital
factors revolve around the matter of mental health. The high school student
will be interested in how alcohol and tobacco effects his well being. He
will ask such questions as:

 1. Do I have to drink and smoke to be popular?
 2. Thy do people drink?
 3. What makes alcoholics?
 4, How may I help my older friend vwho is an alcoholic?

 The teacher may get good help hero from "Alcohol Talks from the Labor-
atory" (3) and "Alcohol Problem Visualized" (4).

Living Chemistry by Ahrens, Bush and Easley. Publisher: Ginn and Company,
Boston, 1945,
(State Adopted)

A, Physical properties by which you may identify a substance, p. 18

 1. Boiling point of alcohol

B. What derivatives, or substitution products of methane are possible? p. 133

 1. Formation of alcohol

C. Relationship of an alcohol to a hydrocarbon, p. 134

D. Anesthetics, narcotics, hypnotics, pp. 212-29

 1. Anesthetics
 2. What are anesthetics
 3. The action of general anesthetics within the body
 4. The making of ether and other anesthetics


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