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RefNoMDA/A/3/24
LevelItem
TitleLetter from Henry Dale, Secretary of the Royal Society, to Charles Smith, the British Temperance League
Date28 February 1930
DescriptionGives him a reference in the Proceedings of articles by K Neville, Hancock and Haldane, on sweating experiences by men drinking water and doing heavy work in high altitude - points out that his own comments about workers needing beer rather than water 'was directed to suggest that any superiority of beer was probably due to its salts rather than its alcohol.
Extent2pp
FormatTypescript
AccessStatusOpen
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