he almost universal habit of drug taking from
the milder tonics to patent medicines. Whenever the average man
or woman feels depressed or slightly ill, resort is made at once
to medicine, more or less strong. If they would try to find out
the cause of the trouble, and seek to obviate it by regulating
their mode of living, the general health of the community would
be better. The drug habit tends continually to lower the tone of
the system. The more it is indulged in the more apparent becomes
the necessity of continuing the downhill course. The majority of
persons do not look beyond the fact that they seem to feel
better after the use of a stimulating drug, or patent medicine.
This feeling comes from a benumbing action of the drug, because
it has no uplifting action. With the system in such a weakened
state, the microbes of the disease find excellent ground to
grow."

Dr. J. H. Kellogg says in the April, 1899, _Bulletin of the
A. M. T. A._:--

"Every drug capable of producing an artificial exhilaration of
spirits, a pleasure which is not the result of the natural play
of the vital functions, is necessarily mischievous in its
tendencies, and its use is intemperance, whether its name be
alcohol, tobacco, opium, cocaine, coca, kola, hashish, Siberian
mushroom, caffeine, betel-nuts, mate or any other of the score
or more enslaving drugs known to pharmacology. As the result of
the depression which follows the unnatural elevation of
sensation resulting from the use of one of these drugs, the
second application finds the subject on a little lower level
than the first, so that an increased dose is necessary to
produce the same intensity of pleasure or the same degree of
artificial felicity as the first. The larger dose is followed by
still greater depression which demands a still larger dose as
its antidote, and thus there is started a series of
ever-increasing doses, and ever-increasing baneful
after-affects, which work the ultimate ruin of the drug victim.
All drugs which enslave are alike in this regard, however much
they may differ otherwise in their physiological effects.
Alcohol is universally recognized as only one member of a large
family of intoxicating drugs, each of which is capable of
producing specific functional and organic mischief, besides the
vital deterioration c