fits
of this class of agents in medicine, are as illusory as they are
in general society, and that the words of the wise man are
worthy of careful consideration when he says: 'Wine is a mocker
and strong drink is raging, and whosoever is _deceived_ thereby
is not wise.'"--DR. N. S. DAVIS, Chicago, Ill.

"Dr. Hirschfeld, a well-known physician of Magdeburg, Germany,
was recently arrested on a charge of malpractice. The specific
charge was that he had refused to give alcohol to one of his
patients who was supposed to need it. The doctor, like the more
advanced German physicians, is discarding liquor from his
practice, and made such a hot defence to the charge that the
court not only discharged the physician, but assessed the cost
of the defense against the prosecution."--_Bulletin of A. M. T. A._

Dr. Greene, of Boston, when addressing his brethren and sisters of the
medical association in that city, upon alcohol, said in closing:--

"It needs no argument to convince you that it is upon the
medical profession, to a very great extent, that the rum-seller
depends to maintain the respectability of the traffic. It
requires only your own experience, and observations, to convince
you that it is upon the medical profession, upon their
prescriptions and recommendations for its use upon many
occasions, that the habitual dram-drinker depends for the
seeming respectability of his drinking habits. It is upon the
members of the medical profession, and the exceptional laws
which it has always demanded, that the whole liquor fraternity
depends, more than upon anything else, to screen it from
opprobrium, and just punishment for the evils which the traffic
entails upon society; and it is because the rum-seller, and the
rum-drinker, hide under this cloak of seeming respectability
that they are so difficult to reach either by moral suasion, or
by law. Physicians generally have only to overcome the force of
habit, and the prevailing fashion in medicine, to find an
excellent way, when they will all look back with wonder and
surprise, that they, as individuals, and members of an honored
profession, should have been so far compromised."

"It will be asked, _Was there no evidence of any good service
rendered by the agent in the midst of so much obvious bad
service?_ I answer to that question THAT