THERE WAS NO SUCH
EVIDENCE WHATEVER, AND IS NONE."--SIR B. W. RICHARDSON.

"A prominent general practitioner expressed surprise that any
one could do without alcohol in general medicine. He was
persuaded to make a trial, by abandoning the internal use of
spirits as medicine. A year afterward he wrote that his success
in the treatment of disease had been equal to that of any year
in the past, and that his cases recovered as well without
alcohol as with it. In a recent medical meeting he remarked, 'I
thought for many years that I could not do without spirits as
medicine. I was mistaken. I am constantly treating cases of all
degrees of severity without alcohol, and my success is fully
equal to the average.'"--_Quarterly of A. M. T. A._

"Happily, the belief in alcohol is passing away."--DR. C. R.
FRANCIS, late Professor of Medicine, Calcutta Medical College.

Dr. Moor, the distinguished editor of the _Pacific Record_, says:--

"While the use of alcohol is always injudicious and injurious,
it is particularly so in summer, when the system is predisposed
to disturbances of the gastro-intestinal tract.

"Alcohol flushes the capillaries of the mucous membranes just as
it does the capillaries of the skin, and where there is already
a smouldering congestion, it will take but little to light the
fire of acute inflammation, which will rage with greatly
increased intensity.

"It is wiser to habitually avoid even the medicinal use of
alcohol, as there are plenty of other stimulants which will give
the desired results without entailing any disastrous after
effects."

"All the pleasant sensations of increased mental and physical
power, which the use of alcohol produces, are deceptive and
arise from the paralysis of the judgment and the momentary
benumbing of the sense of fatigue which afterwards returns so
imperiously with perhaps even greater intensity."--PROF. ADOLF
FICK, of Wurzburg.

Dr. Frank Payne, vice-president of the London Pathological Society,
says:--

"Alcohol is a functional and tissue poison, and there is no
proper or necessary use for it as a medicine."

"When I first heard that there was going to be a total
abstinence hospital, I thought it would be a complete failure.
That was because I had been taught as a student to regard
alcohol as absolutely neces