terial pressure, and aided materially in extinguishing the
pulse.

"Sir Henry Thompson says: 'That alcohol is an anaesthetic and
paralyzant is a fact too well established to be questioned or
contradicted.'

"Dr. J. J. Ridge, of London, has published elaborate tables,
showing that even small doses of alcohol, averaging one
tablespoonful of spirits--not quite half a wineglass of claret
or champagne, and not quite a quarter of a pint of ale--impair
vision, feeling, and sensibility to weight, without the
subject's being conscious of any alteration. Dr. Scougal, of New
York, has repeated and confirmed these experiments, and also
demonstrated that the hearing was similarly affected.

"Drs. Nichol and Mossop, of Edinburgh, conducted a series of
experiments on each other, examining the eye by means of the
ophthalmoscope while the system was under the influence of
various drugs. They found that the nerves controlling the
delicate blood-vessels of the retina were paralyzed by a dose of
about a tablespoonful of brandy.

"Dr. T. D. Crothers, of Hartford, Conn., has deduced some
valuable facts from his experiments with the sphygmograph, upon
the action of the heart. He has found by repeated experiments
that while alcohol apparently increases the force and volume of
the heart's action, the irregular tracings of the sphygmograph
show that the real vital force is diminished, and hence its
apparent stimulating power is deceptive."--Extract from the
Annual Address before the Medical Temperance Association at San
Francisco, Cal., June 8, 1894, by Dr. I. N. Quimby, of Jersey
City, N. J.

Dr. J. H. Kellogg, of Battle Creek, Mich., has made extensive
experiments as to the effects of alcohol. In summing up the results of
these he says:--

"It would seem that no further evidence could be required that
alcohol is a narcotic and an anaesthetic, rather than a
stimulant, and that its use as a supporting and tonic remedy is
a practice without foundation in either scientific theory or
natural clinical experience."

Sir B. W. Richardson at a medical breakfast in London in 1895, stated
that though alcohol produced an increase in the motion of the heart it
was ultimately weaker in its action, so he resolved to give up using
such an agent.

Dr. A. B. Palmer of the University of Michigan prepared a "Report" upon