ool, Chicago, Illinois.
(Deceased.)

"It seems to me that the field of usefulness of alcohol in
therapeutics is extremely limited and possibly does not exist at
all. Probably every supposed indication for its use can be met
better and more safely by other drugs. The recent work on the
so-called food value of alcohol is the subject of much
misunderstanding. While it is true that under some
circumstances, for example, after a person has acquired a
certain degree of tolerance to its poisonous effects, alcohol
seems to act as a food in the sense that fats and carbohydrates
do, I believe this to be at present a matter of little more than
theoretical importance."--DR. REID HUNT, Chief of the Department
of Pharmacology, Public Health and Marine Hospital Service,
Washington, D.C.

"The physician should have blazoned before him, 'If you can do
no good, do no harm.' If this rule is adhered to, in ninety-nine
cases out of one hundred the physician will give no alcohol. In
the medical wards of the Pennsylvania Hospital I have found that
in acute as well as chronic disease we can do without alcohol.
It does harm rather than good. Alcohol masks the symptoms of
disease, so that we cannot know the patient's real
condition."--J. H. MUSSER, M. D., Philadelphia, Pa.,
Ex-President American Medical Association.

"It is time alcohol was banished from the medical armamentarium;
whisky has killed thousands where it cured one."--J. H.
MCCORMACK, M. D., Secretary Kentucky Board of Health, and
Organizer for the American Medical Association.

"I very rarely use alcohol in my practice. I think that its use
is never essential. Physicians are using it less and less in the
treatment of disease owing to the recognition that it is a
narcotic, not a stimulant, and that other narcotics are usually
better when a narcotic is required."--RICHARD C. CABOT, M. D.,
Professor of Clinical Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston,
Mass.

"My position has been that alcohol should be prescribed with as
much care as to indications and circumspection as to dose and
method as in the use of any other drug that in health would
prove harmful, as morphine, belladonna, aconite, quinine, etc. I
believe strongly that in pneumonia, typhoid fever, and
tuberculosis especially, the indiscriminate use of a