uch in skillful doctors, or in some
wonderful 'new remedy,' as in daily obedience to the laws of
health. A small amount of prevention is of more worth than all
the power of cure."--DR. C. H. SHEPARD, Brooklyn, N. Y.

"My observation has been that there is a decided tendency among
educated physicians to give less alcohol than formerly in the
treatment of disease. Of late years I have given but very little
alcohol in my own practice. The tendency is due, in my opinion,
to the study of the physiological action of drugs, and to the
better understanding of the causation of disease and
pathological processes. Modern investigators now know that we
have therapeutic agents that meet the requirements of disease
processes with more scientific accuracy than is obtained by the
exhibition of alcohol."--DR. DONNELLY, Secretary of Minnesota
State Medical Society, St. Paul, Minn.

"Dr. Pearce Gould recently made a speech to the National
Temperance League on alcohol and the advantage of doing without
it, both in health and in the treatment of disease. It takes a
strong man to say the strong things which Mr. Gould said on the
subject, especially if he happens to be a medical man. No doubt,
as Dr. Gould says, the use of alcohol in medical practice is
nothing now compared to what it was twenty years ago, much more
forty years ago, when Dr. Todd's influence, and the reaction
from the so-called antiphlogistic treatment were at their
height. Public opinion has been enlightened by the evidence of
leaders in medicine, such as Dr. Parkes, Sir William Gull, Dr.
Gairdner, Dr. Sanderson, and others, and medical men have dared
to treat disease without alcohol, or with only small quantities
of it. There are physicians and surgeons of reputation and
success, who are so strong in their convictions that alcohol is
of little use in the treatment of disease, that it destroys
tissues, lessens the resistance to microbes, deranges functions,
spoils temper, and shortens life, that they are ready to testify
to this effect in public, in company with redoubtable champions
of the temperance cause like the Archbishop of Canterbury, Sir
William White (chief constructor of the navy), and the Bishop of
Derry, who have as much prejudice to contend against in their
spheres as the medical man has in his. We recognize wi