[Importance of evaluating clinical symptoms of alcoholic intoxication].

The authors studied the relationship between the blood alcohol concentration and the categories of alcohol intoxication established by means of examining the clinical signs of intoxication in a drinking test, and by analyzing the reports on driving while intoxicated (DWI). In the drinking test the relative increase of viso-motor reaction time was an accurate indicator of the blood alcohol levels. In almost half of the cases there was no correlation between the clinical signs and the blood alcohol concentration.

[Data on the static and dynamic rigidity of the calvaria (author's transl)].

Our investigation, carried out on the calvaria of a cadaver, gave us numerical values for the scientific cognition of the static and dynamic flexion- elasticity of the bones of the calvaria. The investigations were carried out with a DYNSTATT type, pendulum-system, flexion-elasticity examining apparatus. On the basis of the measured values three value groups could be established and correspondingly, well-separable regions on the calvaria.