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pleasure the good done by such testimony as Dr. Gould's. Men
whose record and authority in the profession are such as his
have the courage of their opinions, and their honest testimony
will be respected even by those who do not go quite so far in
discarding alcohol as an element of diet, or as a
medicine."--_The Lancet_, London, May 14, 1898.

"The light of exact investigation has shown that the therapeutic
value of alcohol rests on an insecure basis, and it is
constantly being made clearer that after all alcohol is a sort
of poison to be handled with the same care and circumspection as
other agents capable of producing noxious and deadly effect upon
the organism. It has been shown by Abbott and others that
alcoholic animals are more susceptible to infections than normal
animals. And Laitinen, after having studied the influence of
alcohol upon infections with anthrax, tubercle and diphtheria
bacilli in dogs, rabbits, guinea-pigs and pigeons, reaches the
same general results with certainty and directness. Under all
circumstances alcohol causes a marked increase in susceptibility
no matter whether given before or after infections, no matter
whether the doses were few and massive or numerous and small,
and no matter whether the infection was acute or chronic. The
alcoholic animals either die while the controls remain alive, or
in case both die, death is earlier in the alcoholic. The facts
brought out by the researches of Abbott and Laitinen and others
do not furnish the slightest support for the use of alcohol in
the treatment of infectious diseases in man."--_Journal American
Medical Association, Editorial, September 8, 1900._

"Step by step the progress of science has nullified every theory
on which the physician administers alcohol. Every position taken
has been disapproved. Alcohol is not a food and does not
nourish, but impairs nutrition. It is not a stimulant in the
proper acceptation of the term; on the contrary it is a
depressant. Hence its former universal use in cases of shock
was, to say the least, a grave mistake. It has been proved by
recent experiments that alcohol retards, perverts, and is
destructive either in large or small doses to normal cell growth
and development."--NATHAN S. DAVIS, SR., M.D., former Dean of
Northwestern University Medical Sch