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THE confirmation by Payne, Hill and Wood1 of the observation2 that the alcohol content of plasma is substantially higher than that of the red cells is useful, but their figures do not suggest that the phenomenon is of much practical importance.
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WRIGHT, B. Distribution of Ethanol between Plasma and Erythrocytes in Whole Blood. Nature 218, 1263–1264 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/2181263a0
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