high as that noted by Dr. Gairdner as occurring in Glasgow, when
alcohol was abandoned and milk used instead. Dr. Meyer, who
reported these cases of typhoid treated in Saint George's
Hospital at that time, mentioned that alcohol in large doses was
given to 87 per cent. of the patients. Three-fifths of these
patients took daily eight ounces of brandy when there was danger
of sinking from failure of the heart's action. One-fourth of the
number took sixteen fluid ounces of brandy in the 24 hours."

"In 230 typhoid cases in St. Mary's Hospital, Dr. Chambers
reduced the ratio of deaths from 1 in 5 with alcohol to 1 in 40
without it. Dr. Perry, of Glasgow, found that of 534 cases
treated with alcohol, 138 died, while of 491 treated without
alcohol, only 9 died."

In a recent text-book on medicine occurs the following:--

"English physicians use spirits in fevers, and all experience
sustains the conviction that no substitute has been found for
them."

In a late number of the _Temperance Record_, Dr. Smith gives a different
view of the experience of English physicians:--

"When Bentley Todd was at King's College, and leading his
profession, brandy was the rule in febrile cases. Then the
mortality varied from twenty-five to thirty-five per cent. That
the treatment was as fatal as the disease, experience
demonstrates:--

"1. Professor W. T. Gairdner, of Glasgow, writing to the Lancet
(1864), gave his experience as follows:--

Fever cases Average of
treated. wine and spirits. Mortality.

1,829 34 oz. to each 17.69 per cent.
595 2-1/2 oz. to each 11.93 per cent.
212 none 1 death only.
(young lives)

"These were mostly typhus cases, but the rationale, so far as
alcohol is concerned, is the same as in typhoid.

"2. At the British Medical Association in 1879, Professor H.
MacNaughton Jones gave particulars of 340 cases of typhus,
typhoid and simple fever. I append a summary:--

Cases. Deaths. Mortality
per cent.

Given brandy 58 19 32.7
Given claret 51 2 3.8
Given no alcohol 231 4 1.7

"3. Dr. J. C. Pearson writes to the