"The cases treated in the hospital include many of the serious
medical and surgical maladies. In no case has any particle of
alcohol been used, and the usual inflammatory secondary symptoms
resulting when alcohol is used have been entirely avoided.

"Our course of building-up treatment is, we believe, unique in
hospital practice. It consists of treatment by massage, heat,
rest, passive exercise, etc., together with proper medication
and a thoroughly nutritious diet adapted to the individual needs
of the patient.

"To alleviate, and, if possible, cure disease, is the design of
all hospital treatment. In our hospital we seek to gain this
result by means which the highest science of the day approves,
and in addition to this we have especially at heart the
advancement of the temperance reform. There are, we believe,
thousands of temperance adherents, who do not yet fully
apprehend the importance of this hospital to the permanent
extension and progress of temperance principles. Although
prohibition as a _principle_ has been accepted by many, yet in
its _practical application_ in the home in serious illness, it
is still feared by the immense majority of even our strongest
prohibitionists. We are organized upon the basis _no alcohol in
medicine_, and we are preparing to demonstrate fully and
scientifically, so he who runs may read, that as in health, so
in disease and accident, alcohol in any form works to the
hindrance and injury of the vital forces, and prevents the
establishment and advancement of health processes in the
system."

At the opening of the hospital, May 4, 1886, Miss Frances E. Willard,
the president of the National W. C. T. U., gave the following address:

"Nothing is changeless except change. The conservatives of one
epoch are the madmen of the next, even as the radicals of to-day
would have been the lunatics of yesterday. To prove this, just
imagine the founders of this hospital declaring to my
great-grandfather that because he had taken a cold was no reason
why he should take a toddy; and _per contra_, imagine my
great-grandfather's doctor marching into our presence here and
now, with saddle-bags on arm, and after treating us each to a
glass of grog for our stomach's sake, giving us a scientific
disquisition on the sovereign virtues of the blue pill, and