_Lancet_ (Dec. 5 and 26,
1891), giving his experience of typhoid. He had treated several
hundreds of cases without a single death, and never prescribed
stimulants in any shape or form in the disease.

"4. Dr. Knox Bond writes to the _Lancet_ (Nov. 25, 1893), giving
his experience of typhoid at the Liverpool Fever Hospital. He
says: 'As a resident for some years in the fever hospitals, my
views of the value of alcohol in fever underwent, solely as a
result of the experience there gained, entire modification. The
conviction became forced upon my mind that in no case in which
it was used did benefit to the patient ensue; that in a
proportion of cases its use was distinctly hurtful; and that in
a small but appreciable number of cases the resultant harm was
sufficient to tilt the balance as against the recovery of the
patient.'

"In plain terms, alcohol tended to the destruction of the
patients. Dr. Bond's figures are:--

No. of cases. No. of deaths.

Given alcohol 71 18
Given no alcohol 309 15
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380 33

In May, 1890, Dr. Nathan S. Davis, read a paper before the American
Medical Association upon the use of certain drugs in disease. Among the
drugs mentioned was alcohol, and comparative death-rates were given in
typhoid fever and pneumonia, between Mercy Hospital, Chicago, during a
term of years when no alcohol was used in the medical wards, Dr. Davis
being in charge of them, and some of the large metropolitan hospitals
using alcohol. In Mercy Hospital without alcohol, the death-rate in
typhoid fever was only five per cent.; in pneumonia only twelve per
cent.

"Of 161 cases of typhoid fever treated in Cook County Hospital
during 1889, 27 died, or one in six--nearly 17 per cent.

"According to the annual report of the Cincinnati Hospital for
1886, 47 cases of typhoid fever were treated during that year,
with seven deaths, a mortality rate of 16 per cent.

"The Garfield Memorial Hospital, at Washington, reported for the
year 1889, 22 cases of typhoid fever, with 5 deaths--or 22 per
cent.

"In the Pennsylvania Hospital the mortality rate in pneumonia
for the years 1884-1886, was 34 per cent.

"The mortality of pneumonia in the Massachusetts General