y, and the mind, than
nature intended. Overwork, overstrain, worry, all produce
exhaustion of physical and nervous power. Nature pulls us up by
asserting herself, and we feel run down and seedy, and, perhaps,
quite unwell. What is wanted is rest, proper diet, and change.
These would quickly be restorative, and once again we should be
fit for the duties of life.

"In a busy age there is the strongest possible temptation to
seek a restorative by some occult method, rather than to give
the rest and refreshment that nature demands. It is upon this
that the whole trade in these so-called restoratives depends.

"There is no food quality in alcohol, cocaine or kola, but there
is in them all a narcotizing influence that in its lesser stages
is hurtful, and in its greater stages disastrous.

"The cocaine habit may be cultivated as easily as the alcohol
habit, and the two forms of disease, alcoholism and cocainism,
are by no means rare. The great factor in each of them is the
loss of will power, and when that is accomplished the descent to
complete moral and physical ruin is quite easy.

"A pure and simple life, in accord with the laws of health and
hygiene, is the panacea both for the maintenance, and the
restoration of health, and that is what we should strive to aim
at, rather than having recourse to drugs that are not only
ineffective, but positively dangerous."--_United Temperance
Gazette._

In Dr. Milner Fothergill's _Practioners' Hand-book of Treatment_, fourth
edition, the following statement is made:--

"Coca wine, and other medicated wines are largely sold to people
who are considered, and consider themselves, to be total
abstainers. It is not uncommon to hear the mother of a family
say, 'I never allow my girls to touch stimulants of any kind,
but I give them each a glass of coca wine at 11 in the morning,
and again at bedtime.' Originally coca wine was made from coca
leaves, but it is now commonly a solution of the alkaloid, in a
sweet and strongly alcoholic wine. This is really the gist of
the whole matter; coca wine is largely consumed by people who
fondly believe themselves to be total abstainers, and who are
active enough in denouncing those who take a little wine, or a
glass of beer at their meals. The sooner their delusion is
dispelled the better for themselve