be much more satisfactorily treated
without beer, wines, or spirits."--DR. C. R. DRYSDALE,
Consulting Physician to the Metropolitan Hospital, London.

"Alcohol is a functional and tissue poison, and there is no
proper or necessary use for it as medicine."--DR. FRANK PAYNE,
Vice-President London Pathological Society.

"Of scarlet fever I have treated some 2,000 cases. I have never
seen a case in which, in my opinion, alcohol was necessary; no
case in which its administration was beneficial; but I have seen
more than one case in which its action was directly injurious. *
* * Alcohol in no case averts a fatal issue where such is
impending. * * * The facts are dead against alcohol. In
hospitals there has been an increase of 300 per cent. in the use
of milk, and a decline of 47 per cent. in the use of alcohol.
Progress in treatment of disease has gone hand in hand with
disuse of alcohol. The use of alcohol formerly was the outcome
of ignorance, a confession of weakness and defeat; to-day it is
the expression of inability to discard the fetters of an outworn
routine."--DR. C. KNOX BOND, in Medical Times.

"For many years I have dispensed almost entirely with alcohol as
an aid in surgical treatment. As a student I saw it used, almost
as a matter of routine, for every kind of surgical malady except
head injuries, and in my early years I naturally followed the
practise of my teachers; but as soon as I made trial for myself
of the effect of withholding alcohol, I found how entirely
overrated its value was, and how gravely mistaken had been the
teaching. It is commonly held, I believe, that alcoholic
stimulants are of especial value in all forms of septic
inflammation, such as erysipelas, pyaemia, septicaemia, and hectic
fever. I believe that this belief is founded solely upon
tradition unsupported by any trustworthy evidence, and untested
by experiment or experience."--DR. A. PEARCE GOULD, F. R. C. S.,
Surgeon to the Middlesex Hospital, London.

"I have not prescribed alcohol to my patients for more than ten
years, and can affirm positively that they have fared well under
this change of treatment. Since I formerly followed the
universal practice, I am competent to make comparisons, and
these speak unconditionally in favor of treatment without
alcohol. As a preventive