ociety, and
may be obtained from it in paper binding for twenty-five cents. As it
makes a book of 137 pages the conclusions only will be quoted here. They
are as follows:--

1. "Alcohol is not shown to have a definite food value by any of
the usual methods of chemical analysis or physiological
investigation.

2. "Its use as a medicine is chiefly that of a cardiac
stimulant, and often admits of substitution.

3. "As a medicine it is not well fitted for self-prescription by
the laity, and the medical profession is not accountable for
such administration, or for the enormous evil arising therefrom.

4. "The purity of alcoholic liquors is in general not as well
assured as that of articles used for medicine should be. The
various mixtures when used as medicine should have definite and
known composition, and should not be interchanged
promiscuously."

It is matter for sincere regret that this deliverance was not, in some
way, brought prominently before every physician in the land. There are,
doubtless, thousands of physicians who never heard of it, and,
consequently have never been influenced by it to doubt the utility of
the popular brandy bottle.

In 1883 Mrs. Mary Towne Burt, President of New York State W. C. T. U.,
in her annual address, suggested that a department of work be created to
endeavor to induce physicians to not prescribe alcohol, unless in such
cases as allowed of the use of no other agent. Mrs. (Rev.) J. Butler, of
Fairport, was the first superintendent of this department, which was
named, "Influencing Physicians to not Prescribe Alcoholics as
Medicines." The National W. C. T. U. adopted the department in 1883,
but soon dropped it. In 1895 it was reinstated and Mrs. Martha M. Allen,
New York's superintendent, was made national superintendent. In 1905 the
name of the department was changed from Non-Alcoholic Medication, which
it had borne for fifteen years, to Medical Temperance.

The objects of this department of work are:

1. To inform the public of the objections to the medical use of
alcoholic drinks now held by many successful physicians.

2. To show the dangers in the home-prescription of alcohol and other
powerful drugs.

3. To expose fraudulent and dangerous proprietary and "patent" medicines
and liquid "foods," the main ingredients of which are alcohol and
morphine.

4. To use persuasion with publishers of newspapers and magazines agai