Ranch Sanitorium, Colorado
Springs, Colorado.

"You ask me my opinion as to the use of whisky in the treatment
of consumption. In reply permit me to say that I regard its use
in this disease as most universally pernicious."--PROF. CHARLES
G. STOCKTON, M. D., Buffalo Medical College, Buffalo, N. Y.

"It was formerly thought that alcohol was in some way
antagonistic to tuberculous disease, but the observations of
late years indicate clearly that the reverse is the case, and
that chronic drinkers are more liable to both acute and
pulmonary tuberculosis. It is probably altogether a question of
altered tissue soil, the alcohol lowering the vitality and
enabling the bacilli more readily to develop and grow."--DR.
OSLER, formerly Professor of Medicine in Johns Hopkins
University, Baltimore, Md., now of Oxford University, England.

"Upon investigation I found 38 per cent. of our male tubercular
patients were excessive users of alcohol, 56 per cent. moderate
users. From my study of the cases I am led to believe that in a
vast majority of these cases drink has been a large factor in
producing the disease, by exposure, lowering of vitality, etc. I
believe that alcohol has no place in the treatment of
tuberculosis. Many patients are deceived by the false strength
it gives them."--O. C. WILLHITE, M. D., Superintendent of Cook
County Hospital for Consumptives, Dunning, Ill.

"In tuberculosis there is a state of over-stimulation of the
circulatory system due to the toxins. The use of alcoholics
simply makes the condition worse. It reduces resistance and
makes the person more susceptible to the disease."--H. J.
BLANKMEYER, M. D., Sanatorium Gabriels, in the Adirondacks,
N. Y.

"The practice of taking alcoholics of any sort, and in any
quantity, over a considerable length of time, is certain to
produce more or less injury to a tubercular patient, and their
use by tubercular people cannot be too strongly condemned."--H.
S. GOODALL, M. D., Lake Kushaqua, N. Y.

Most of these opinions were written for the author of this book in
response to letters of inquiry. Are they not indicative of a day when
the medical profession will lay aside alcoholic liquors in the treatment
of all diseases? It is acknowledged that the past usage of giving whisky
and cod-liver oil to consumptives was an error; s