Talk:jake leg

I revised the entry as it seems it's not just from ginger/phosphate (indeed, the ginger extract seems to have been drunk for its alcoholic content—?), e.g.

• 2010, Janet Mace Valenza, Taking the Waters in Texas:

  Out-of-town patients came in droves for the treatment of [jake leg]. Jake leg was caused by drinking methyl (wood) alcohol rather than ethyl alcohol. [...] Someone with jake leg had a typical walk, a sort of slinging of the legs.

• 2015 January 13, Frank F. Mathias, GI Jive: An Army Bandsman in World War II, University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN, page 146:

  Many more died as the ignorant moonshiners blended captured Japanese motor alcohol into their whiskey. Others wound up with jake-leg, a permanent disability of the nervous system resulting in a stumbling walk. A child of the Prohibition […]

- -sche (discuss) 18:40, 22 July 2022 (UTC)