I have taught in Michigan I have not used
alcohol in the treatment of disease in a routine way. Even
alcoholic preparations, such as tinctures, have been used in
very rare instances. I have occasion to speak on this subject
every year to about two hundred students. My reasons for taking
this stand are chiefly medical, though I am heartily in sympathy
with the ethical and moral phases of the temperance
movement."--DR. GEORGE DOCK, formerly Professor of Medicine,
University of Michigan Medical College, now of Tulane
University, New Orleans.

"Alcohol is distinctly a poison, and the limitation of its use
should be as strict as that of any other kind of poison. It is
not an appetizer, and even in small quantities it hinders
digestion. The use of alcohol is emphatically diminishing in
hospital practise."--SIR FREDERICK TREVES, Surgeon to King
Edward.

"If during the last quarter of a century I have prescribed
almost no alcohol in the treatment of disease, it is because I
have found very little reason for its use, and it seemed to me
that my patients got on better without it."--SIR JAMES BARR,
Dean of the Medical School of Liverpool University.

"With the increase of medical knowledge and with the increase of
medical observation, it is shown every year that the value of
alcohol as a drug has been enormously overestimated. It is a
very poor agent, and only in common use because it is so easily
obtained. The medical profession is using it less and less,
because they appreciate it now at its true value. Personally I
never order it, because I believe patients recover better
without it."--SIR VICTOR HORSLEY, Surgeon to London Hospital.

"The same care and discrimination should be given to the
prescribing of alcohol as to the most deadly drug with which we
have to deal. In looking at the report of Radcliffe Infirmary
for the past month I see that in dealing with twenty-five cases
I ordered alcohol costing exactly 1-3/4 pence."--DR. WILLIAM
COLLIER, President British Medical Association, 1904.

"In England at present the use of large doses of alcohol seems
to have greatly gone out of hospital practise, and opinion is
certainly growing that not even small doses are required.
Diseases of the stomach, liver, heart, and kidneys have appeared
to me, in my practise, to