iews regarding such treatment expressed by leading
practitioners will doubtless be read with eagerness.

The following is a paper by Dr. N. S. Davis taken from the _Medical
Temperance Quarterly_.

"ALLEGED INDICATIONS FOR THE USE OF ALCOHOL IN THE TREATMENT OF
TYPHOID FEVER:--On the first page of the first number of a new
medical journal bearing date July, 1895, may be found the
following statement: 'The question of administering alcohol
comes up in every case of typhoid fever. In mild cases,
especially when the patient is young, healthy and temperate,
stimulants are not needed so long as the disease follows the
typical course. Here, as elsewhere, alcohol should be avoided
when not absolutely demanded. There is, however, generally such
a dangerous tendency toward nervous exhaustion, that in a
majority of cases more or less alcohol is required. The
indication which calls for its use is an inability to administer
enough food. * * * * * Again, the existence of high temperature
nearly always makes it necessary to stimulate the patient, as
does threatened nervous exhaustion and heart failure, for
immediate effect; likewise a weak, small, compressible, rapid
pulse, with impaired cardiac impulse and systolic sound, is a
frequent indication; other remedies may be required, but alcohol
cannot be dispensed with.' The next paragraph continues: 'It is
necessary to give alcohol in serious complications of typhoid
fever, such as pneumonia, pleurisy, hemorrhage and severe
bronchitis or diarrhoea. It is best to begin giving it early
and in small quantities: two to six ounces is a moderate amount,
eight to twelve ounces daily is not too much for adynamic or
complicated cases.'

"The foregoing quotations purport to have been condensed from
one of our recent authoritative works on practical medicine, and
doubtless fairly represent the prevailing opinions concerning
the use of alcohol in the treatment of typhoid and other fevers,
both in and out of the profession. A careful reading will show
that the whole is founded on the following four assumptions:

"1. That alcohol when taken into the living body acts as a
general stimulant, and especially so to the cardiac and
vasomotor functions. 2. That in mild, uncomplicated cases of
typhoid fever in young and previously healthy subjects,
stimulants a