minent physicians--La grippe caused by drug
taking--Coal-tar drugs--Quinine--Sir Frederick Treves on disuse of
drugs--People demand drugs of physicians--Mothers make drug
victims of their children--Habit-producing drugs--Causes of
drug-taking--How to be well 335

CHAPTER XV.

TESTIMONIES OF PHYSICIANS AGAINST ALCOHOLIC MEDICATION.

No need for substitutes for alcohol--Alcohol hides symptoms of
disease--Responsibility of physicians--Opinions of many teachers
in medical colleges--Hot milk better than alcohol--_Journal of the
American Medical Association_ on researches of Abbott and
Laitinen--Resolution against alcohol of West Virginia Medical
Society--Dr. Knox Bond on Scarlet Fever--Metchnikoff on white
blood-cells--Kassowitz describes his treatment of fevers--Sims
Woodhead's opinions--Opinions of German Physicians--Dr. Harvey
blames medical profession for careless use of alcohol and
opium--Use of Alcohol declining rapidly in medical practice 356

CHAPTER XVI.

RECENT RESEARCHES UPON ALCOHOL.

Experiments of Laitinen--Resistance of blood-cells to disease
lowered by alcohol--International Congress on Alcoholism, London,
1909--Alcohol and Immunity--Effect of Alcohol Drinking on Human
Off-spring--Researches of Kraepelin and Aschaffenberg--Economic
losses by reduced work through beer and wine drinking--Researches
of Dr. Reid Hunt--Mice given alcohol killed by small doses of
poison--Difference in effect of alcohol and starch
foods--Chittenden on food theory of alcohol--Researches of Dr. S.
P. Beebe--Liver impaired by alcohol--Dr. Winfield S. Hall's
interpretation of the researches of Beebe and Hunt--Oxidation of
alcohol by liver a protective action--Researches show that alcohol
is a poison, not a food 392

CHAPTER XVII.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Alcohol Baths--Beverages for the Sick--Tobacco and the
Eyesight--Advertised "Cures" for Drunkenness--How to quit
drinking--Dr. T. D. Crothers' remedy for drink crave--Alcohol and
Children--Alcohol Tested--Beer-Drinking Injurious to Health--Drug
Drinks--Special Directions for Women--Total Abstinence and Life
Insurance--Opinions of Life Insurance Companies on drinkers as
risks 410

INTRODUCTION.

This book is the outcome of many years of study. With the exce