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What are the similarities between methanol and Lindol”?

In 1928, bootleggers started manufacturing an illegal alcoholic beverage based on an extract of Jamaican ginger, an old medicinal remedy of a powder mixed with alcohol. To hide the alcohol from Prohibition agents, the men added the chemical tri-ortho-cresyl phosphate, known as Lindol. The chemical was a plasticizer used to make film. The concoction was marketed as “Ginger Jake” and thousands of bottles were sold. Lindol proved to be toxic to nerve cells, causing paralysis below the waist. It quickly produced an epidemic of damage to the legs of drinkers and thousands of people were afflicted with a slow limp called “jake leg” or “jake walk.”