ere 204 cases in the park, only six of
whom were temperate, and these recovered, while 122 of the
others died. In many parts of the city the saloon keepers saw
and acknowledged the terrible connection between their business
and the spread of the disease, and, becoming alarmed for their
own safety, shut up their saloons and fled, saying: 'The way
from the saloon to hell is too short.'

"In Washington the Board of Health was so impressed with the
terrible facts that they declared the grog shops nuisances,
ordered them closed, and they remained closed for three months.

"A prominent physician of Glasgow reported: 'Only nineteen per
cent. of the temperate perished, while ninety-one and two-tenths
per cent. of the intemperate died.' One extensive liquor dealer
of Glasgow, said, 'Cholera has carried off half of my
customers.'

"In Warsaw ninety per cent. of those who died from cholera were
wine drinkers.

"At Tifels, Prussia, a town of 20,000 inhabitants, every
drunkard died of cholera."

The _St. Paul Medical Journal_, of September, 1899, gives the following
report of a railway surgeon, Dr. Kane:--

"From June 1, 1898, to June 1, 1899, the author performed a few
more than four hundred operations. Forty-nine abdominal
sections, fifty odd more operations of a graver sort, one
hundred miscellaneous of less gravity than above, over one
hundred operations upon female perineum and uterus. Of the four
hundred, more than three hundred demanded anaesthesia. There were
but three deaths, making the mortality a little less than one
per cent.

"The author does not claim a phenomenally low mortality, nor
does he claim specially brilliant results. He has to contend
with unreasoning fear on the part of the patients for hospital
surgeons, and also most of his cases had been in the hands of
quacks, and had subjected themselves to remedies prescribed by
old women. Many cases came after the family physician had
exhausted his resources. He thinks his results are considerably
better than the average in hospitals and in country districts.
Alcohol medication was dispensed with entirely after the
patients came under his care, and to this he attributes much of
his success. He does not believe that alcohol is a stimulant, or
a tonic. On the contrary, he believes that it retards digestion,