atarrh, which may be due to imperfect mastication through bad
teeth, or aggravated by it. There are other causes, such as late
hours, bad habits, improper food or irregular meals. In such
cases those means must be resorted to which are so effectual in
improving the condition and strengthening the heart of athletes.
Regular and regulated meals, exercise in the fresh air, a good
amount of rest and sleep--these will do more than anything else
to invigorate the bodily health."

Dr. N. S. Davis says:--

"Although I was taught, like all others, to use alcohol as a
tonic when patients were sick, to hasten their recovery and
promote their strength, yet it did not take me very long to find
out that here and there was one already a teetotaler who would
not take wine long, nor any kind of alcoholic drink unless
prescribed, just as castor-oil, dose by dose, but who, when he
got beyond the necessity of having it as a medicine, took no
more. What was the comparison? My patients who refused, or did
not take alcohol, got strong quicker and had less tendency to
relapse than those who continued its use. Here was the first
step in progress, and consequently I came soon to cease the
recommending it merely to hasten recovery of strength. As a
tonic, I found it of no value."

Dr. James Miller, of Edinburgh, says in _Alcohol, Its Place and Power_,
written many years ago:--

"It may be well here to correct an important error, yet very
current, in regard to the medicinal use of alcohol. People
regard it as a simple and common tonic; and are ready to accept
its supposed help as such in every form of weakness and general
disorder of health. But it is ordinarily, no true tonic."

Dr. Ernest Hart, editor of the _British Medical Journal_, stated some
years ago at a meeting of the British Medical Temperance Association
that "the medical profession were nearly all agreed that alcohol is
neither a food nor a tonic."

Many drunkards have been made, especially among women, by the delusion
that alcohol has tonic effect. As a sample of these sad cases the
following is given, taken from a recent number of _The National
Advocate_:--

"There is in the jail at Elizabeth, N. J., a woman who was
arrested while participating in wild drunken orgies with a gang
of tramps in the woods near the town. She appears nothing but a
besotted hag, but