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physicians:--

Sir Andrew Clark, M. D., F. R. C. P., London, Physician in
Ordinary to the Queen, Senior Physician at the London Hospital:
"As I looked at the hospital wards to-day, and saw that seven
out of ten owed their diseases to alcohol, I could but lament
that the teaching about this question is not more direct, more
decisive and more home-thrusting. * * * * * Can I say to you any
words stronger than these of the terrible effects of alcohol?
When I think of this I am disposed to give up my profession, and
go forth upon a holy crusade, preaching to all men--_Beware of
this enemy of the race._"

Sir William Gull, F. R. S. (late Physician to her Majesty): "I
should say, from my experience, that alcohol is the most
destructive agent that we are aware of in this country. I would
like to say that a very large number of people in society are
dying day by day, poisoned by alcohol, but not supposed to be
poisoned by it."

Dr. Abernethy: "If people will leave off drinking alcohol, live
plainly, and take very little medicine they will find that many
disorders will be relieved by this treatment alone."

Dr. Forel, of the University of Zurich, Switzerland: "Life is
considerably shortened by the use of alcohol in large
quantities. But a moderate consumption of the same also shortens
life by an average of five to six years. This is consistently
and unequivocally seen in the statistics kept for thirty years
by English insurance companies, with special sections for
abstainers. They give a large discount, and still make more
profit, as not nearly so many deaths occur as might be expected
under the usual calculations. According to federal statistics in
the fifteen largest towns of Switzerland, over ten per cent. of
the men over twenty years of age die solely, or partly of
alcoholism."

Dr. J. H. Kellogg, Battle Creek, Mich.: "Every organ feels the
effect of the abuse through indulgence in alcohol, and no
function is left undisturbed. By degrees, disordered function,
through long continuance of the disturbance, induces tissue
change. The most common form of organic or structural disease
due to alcohol is fatty degeneration, which may effect almost
every organ in the body. * * * * * No class of persons are so
subject to nervous diseases due to degeneration of nerves and