sary in the treatment of disease.
Nevertheless I was an abstainer myself. When I was asked to join
as physician, I did not consent without a good deal of
consideration, and then only on the understanding that if I
thought a person needed it, I should be allowed to administer
alcohol. I remember the first case of severe typhoid fever I
had. He was hovering between life and death, and I was anxiously
watching to see whether it would be necessary to give alcohol,
but the man made a good recovery without it. After watching many
cases to whom I should have given alcohol if I had been treating
them elsewhere, I came to the conclusion that I had been
completely deluded. I gave it at one time to a woman in the
Hospital who was in a dying condition, but it did not save her.
I do not think I am likely to administer alcohol again. We have
had progress and efficiency in the Hospital. It has been like an
experiment for the profession, and our success shows that this
giving of alcohol is certainly a matter for re-consideration for
the medical profession. I believe that they are mistaken. There
is no doubt that the amount of alcohol used in other hospitals
has diminished greatly, compared with what was used in the past.
To the outside public also this Hospital is an example. I
believe that an immense number of the public have been
teetotalers some time in their lives, but a great many of them
have gone back to the drink in time of illness, because they
have been advised to do so. This Hospital is a standing witness
that disease and surgical injuries can be treated without
alcoholic liquors."--DR. J. J. RIDGE, of London Temperance
Hospital.

"I find very little use for alcohol in the practice of medicine.
Where there is one element of good in alcohol there are
thousands that are bad."--DR. ALFRED MERCER, Syracuse, N. Y.,
Professor of Medicine in Syracuse Medical School.

"Alcohol is rarely necessary. Other remedies are much more
efficacious. In my department of the University of Buffalo I
follow Cushny, who claims that alcohol is a poison, a depressant
in direct proportion to the amount ingested, and a so-called
false food."--DR. DE WITT H. SHERMAN, Adjunct Professor of
Therapeutics, University of Buffalo Medical Department.

"I believe that alcohol is the greatest foe to the