Professor Yandell Henderson testifying before a U.S. Senate subcommittee that beers containing 3-4% alcohol by volume were not intoxicating. Photograph, 1932.

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1932
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674121i
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"The industrial toxicologist Yandell Henderson argued that alcohol should be considered analogous to carbon monoxide - clearly a poison, yet a normal part of civilized life and only problematic above a determinable and manageable exposure threshold. This argument had political force in the early 1930s as part of the contention that beer was not an "intoxicating liquor." It was more broadly persuasive because it was consistent with Americans' experience with industrial poisons, for which exposure levels had been set forth by toxicologists such as Henderson" -- Pauly, op. cit.

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New York (219 East 44th Street) : Keystone View Company ; [Buenos Aires] : Archivo E.E. Haynes, 1932.

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1 photograph : photoprint ; sheet 20.5 x 25.8 cm

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Yale professor before Senate sub-committee. Professor Yandell Henderson. Beer containing 3 or 4 percent of alcohol by volume was declared Jan. 8 by Prof. Yandell Henderson to be not intoxicating ... Keystone View Co. --- ATP Lettering on a typed label stuck to the verso identifies the subject and names the senators as Senator Hatfield (W. Va.), Senator Bulkley (Ohio), Senator Metcalf (R.I.), and Senator Bingham (Conn.). Verso of print catalogued bears stamps of Keystone View Company (name indistinct) and of Archivo E.E. Haynes, Lda, S.A. (as distributor)

References note

P.J. Pauly, 'Is liquor intoxicating? Scientists, prohibition, and the normalization of drinking', American Journal of Public Health, 1994, 84: 305-313 (on Henderson's views)

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Wellcome Collection 674121i

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