^Boyle discusses the distillation of liquids from the wood of the box shrub in: Robert Boyle,The Sceptical Chymist (London, England: J. Cadwell, 1661),pp. 192-195.
^A report on methanol to the French Academy of Sciences by J. Dumas and E. Péligot began during the Academy's meeting of October 27, 1834 and finished during the meeting of November 3, 1834. See:Procès-verbaux des séances de l'Académie,10 : 600-601. Available on:Gallica (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆). The complete report appears in: J. Dumas and E. Péligot (1835)"Mémoire sur l'espirit de bois et sur les divers composés ethérés qui en proviennent" (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆) (Memoir on spirit of wood and on the various ethereal compounds that derive therefrom),Annales de chimie et de physique,58 : 5-74; frompage 9 (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆):Nous donnerons le nom deméthylène (1) à un radical … (1) Μεθυ, vin, et υλη, bois; c'est-à-dire vin ou liqueur spiritueuse du bois. (We will give the name "methylene" (1) to a radical … (1)methy, wine, andhulē, wood; that is, wine or spirit of wood.)
^Swift, Robert; Davidson, Dena.Alcohol Hangover - Mechanisms and Mediators(PDF). Alcohol Health Research World. 1998,22 (1): 54–60 [January 26, 2016]. (原始内容(PDF)存档于2016年2月11日).One specific congener implicated in hangover effects is methanol, which is an alcohol compound found in alcoholic beverages along with ethanol.