alcohol
is an article of food value. It has no such value. The use of
intoxicants in any quantity whatever, or at any time, is
entirely useless and unnecessary. The continued use of them
gradually induces structural degradations and functional
derangements of the great bodily organs, thus leading to the
gravest physical disorders."

"I have demonstrated by actual experience that no form of
alcoholic drink is necessary, or desirable, for internal use,
either in health, or any of the varied forms of disease; but
that health can be better preserved, and disease more
successfully treated, without the use of such drinks.* * * * *
Simple truth compels me to say that I have never yet seen a case
in which the use of alcoholic drinks either increased the force
of the heart's action, or strengthened the patient. But I could
detail very many cases in which the administration of alcoholics
was quieting the patient's restlessness, enfeebling the
capillary circulation, and steadily favoring increased
engorgement of the lungs and other internal viscera, and thereby
hastening a fatal result, where both attending physician and
friends thought they were the only agents that were keeping the
patient alive.

"I have found no case of disease and no emergency arising from
accident, that I could not treat more successfully without any
form of fermented or distilled liquors than with. It is easy to
see that the anaesthetic properties of alcohol can be made
available by an intelligent and skillful physician to meet a
very limited number of indications in the treatment of some
cases that will come before him. But the same intelligence and
skill will enable him to select other remedies capable of
meeting the same indications more perfectly, and, with less
tendency to secondary bad effects. I have no hesitation,
therefore, in stating that for the attainment of the highest
degree of success in the management of all forms of disease,
whether acute or chronic, we need no form of fermented, or
distilled, alcoholic drinks. And whoever will boldly make the
trial, will find that his patients, of every kind, will make
better progress, on good air and simple nourishment, without any
admixture of alcoholic liquids, than they will with such
addition. In other words he will find that the supposed bene