et, with all the warnings, few pay heed. Even highly educated,
intelligent people seem possessed of a blind faith in the power of
drugs. Every little ache or pain must have its sedative, be the future
penalty what it may.

Were people to quit drugging themselves, avoid indigestible viands, eat
at regular hours, chew well, stop eating when they have had enough, take
a sufficiency of exercise, sleep and fresh air, with a hot bath once a
week, and a cold "towel bath" each morning, laying aside all alcoholic
beverages, tea and coffee, and tobacco, there would be very little
sickness in the world. Over-eating leads to the drug habit for relief
from uneasy sensations, so does improper food, or poorly cooked food.

It should be remembered that it is not possible to violate the laws
which relate to the physical well-being, and then escape the natural
penalty of transgression by swallowing a few doses of medicine. Remedies
may postpone the results of physical transgression, and may even seem to
prevent them altogether, but careful observation will show that the
escape from punishment is only apparent. Sometimes a parent escapes,
while his child pays the penalty of his transgression, in a weakly
nervous system, which may lead to insanity, or other trouble.

CHAPTER XV.

TESTIMONIES OF PHYSICIANS AGAINST ALCOHOLIC MEDICATION.

"In abandoning the use of alcohol it should be clearly
understood that we abandon an injurious influence, and escape
from a source of disease, as we do when we get into a purer
atmosphere. _There is not the slightest occasion to do anything,
or to take anything to make up for the loss of a strengthening
or supporting agent._ No loss has been incurred save the loss of
a cause of disease and death."--DR. J. J. RIDGE, of London
Temperance Hospital.

Sir. B. W. Richardson, M. D., said of the London Temperance Hospital:--

"No alcohol is administered, and no substitute for it. Any drug
with similar action would be bad; warmth and suitable
nourishment are relied on to keep up the system. We know that
people who take alcohol often feel better; this is from the
narcotic action. The pain may be stilled, and the disease
forgotten, but it has not been removed; its symptom has been
narcotized."

Another writer says:--

"I am asked for a substitute for brandy, and frankly and gladly
I tell you there is no substitute, for I have no know