Alcohol has never cured and never will cure tuberculosis. It
will either prevent or retard recovery. It is like a two-edged
weapon; on one side it poisons the system, and on the other it
ruins the stomach and thus prevents this organ from properly
digesting the necessary food."--S. A. KNOPF, M. D., New York,
Honorary Vice-President of the British Congress on Tuberculosis.

Dr. Knopf in his prize essay on "Tuberculosis and How to Combat
It," says in several places: "Avoid all alcoholic beverages." He
says also, "Alcohol should never be given to children even in
the smallest quantities."

"It is a recognized fact in the medical profession that the
habitual use of alcoholic drinks predisposes to tubercular
infection. It is also recognized, I think, by most physicians
that alcohol as a medicine is harmful to the tubercular
invalid."--FRANK BILLINGS, M. D., Chicago, Ill., Former
President American Medical Association.

"Alcoholic liquors are of damage to consumptives because they
tend to impair nutrition, disturb the action of the stomach, and
give a false strength to the invalid on which he is sure to
presume. Besides, we know that in countries where drinking
prevails most, the ravages of tuberculosis are most
marked."--EDWARD L. TRUDEAU, M. D., Adirondacks Sanitarium for
Consumptives, Saranac Lake, N. Y.

"In my judgment whisky should not be used by people who have
consumption, and in my practice I prohibit its use absolutely.
At the White Haven Sanitarium and Henry Phipps Institute we do
not use alcohol in any form in the treatment of our
patients."--LAWRENCE F. FLICK, M. D., Vice-President of the
National Association for the Study and Prevention of
Tuberculosis, Philadelphia, Pa.

"I do not feel that I can emphasize strongly enough the harm
that can be done by the use of alcohol in tuberculosis, and the
indiscriminate use of it certainly borders on the criminal. I do
not believe that any legitimate reason can be given for the
routine employment of alcohol in the treatment of tuberculosis.
I furthermore know of no emergency in which it is indispensable.
My experience with patients who have been accustomed to the use
of alcohol, especially moderately, is very unsatisfactory. They
seem to show an abnormally low resisting power to the tubercle
bacillus. T