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"The desert has its demon”

Cartoon depicting the devastation of wood alcohol (methanol) poisoning during Prohibition under the Volstead Act. The Volstead Act was intended to carry out the intent of the 18th Amendment, ratified in January 1919. Once ethanol was prohibited, liquor was sold illicitly, often adulterated with methanol. The result was a marked increase in methanol poisoning across the "bone-dry land." (Original cartoon by Harding in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, reprinted in The Independent on January 17, 1920. Image edited by Dr. Douglas J Lanska.)

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