of waste I use among fever patients
nothing but real foods; in addition to milk, particularly
sugar, which can be administered to any fever patient in ample
quantity in the form of fruit juices, stewed fruit, sweet
lemonade, fruit ices, sugared tea, etc., concerning which
hundreds of investigations have demonstrated positively that it
prevents the waste of both albumen and fat. As a stimulant I
employ, besides hydriatic methods, which at the same time
abstract heat, almost nothing but camphor, and I can affirm that
it is unconditionally preferable to alcohol for its prompt
results and the absence of disagreeable after-effects
(intoxication, benumbing). Pneumonia, especially, subsides
without alcohol to perfect satisfaction, and I rejoice to agree
in this respect with Aufrecht, one of the best authorities on
this disease, who in his monograph in Nothnagle's manual,
acknowledges himself hostile to the use of alcohol in the
treatment of pneumonia, and hopes that its use may be speedily
abolished. For the reasons previously specified, I should like
to see that extended to all use of alcohol in therapeutics.
However, that can come to pass only when all thinking physicians
clearly appreciate the fact that no substance is able to
undertake the double role of a food and a poison, and, also,
that for alcohol no nutritive, but only toxic properties can be
claimed."--MAX KASSOWITZ, M. D., Professor in the University of
Vienna, Austria.

"Besides its deleterious influence on the nervous system and
other important parts of our body, alcohol has a harmful action
on the phagocytes, the agents of natural defense against
infective microbes."--PROF. METCHNIKOFF, Pasteur Institute,
Paris, France.

"Alcoholic liquors are, to my mind, not only not valuable, but
distinctly disadvantageous, in the treatment of disease, except
in rare instances, as for example in the initial chill of some
acute infectious disease. However, I have almost given up the
use of alcohol in the treatment of disease."--DR. D. L. EDSALL,
Professor of Therapeutics in the University of Pennsylvania
Medical School.

"As a rule which might well be regarded as universal in the
practice of medicine, alcohol in the treatment of disease is an
evil. In ordinary doses and in continuous use the sum of its
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