Effect of Small Doses of Alcohol on a Skill Resembling Driving

Abstract

Since the drinking of alcohol in one form or another is so common a characteristic of the social life of man in a variety of cultures, it would seem important that as much as possible should be known both of its physiological effects and of. its effects on behaviour. In fact, at the present time, very little precise information is available, in spite of an extensive literature on the subject. This literature has been reviewed, more or less comprehensively, periodically since the early part of this century (Fisk, 1917 ; Darrow, 1929 ; Emerson, 1933; M.R.C. Alcohol Investigation Committee, 1938 ; Jellinek and McFarland, 1940; Drew, 1950).