SEMPRE HOUVE " ESPECIALISTAS " CHEIOS DE CERTEZAS: Em meados do século XIX, o Dr. Eliphalet Nott, presidente do Union College ( em Schenectady, Nova Iorque ), explicava que o consumo de álcool provocava a combustão espontânea do corpo humano:
"...these causes of death of drunkards by internal fires, kindled often spontaneously in the fumes of alcohol, that escape through the pores of skin, have become so numerous and so incontrovertible that I presume no person of information will be found to call of their existence into question."
( Edward Behr, " Prohibition: Thirteen Years that Changed America ", Arcade Publishing, 1996, New York)
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