lcohol in
the past has caused an incalculable amount of distress and
needless disaster to suffering humanity."--HOWARD S. ANDERS, M.
D., Professor of Physical Diagnosis, Medico-Chirurgical College,
Philadelphia, Pa.

"I do not think alcohol of any value in the treatment of
disease; formerly it was used a great deal in the hospital
wards, and 'liquor slips' were daily signed. Now, I never order
liquor in any quantity, and at times for weeks I have not signed
a single slip ordering liquor."--HENRY JACKSON, M. D., Professor
in Harvard Medical School.

"In the overwhelming majority of cases I am in entire sympathy
with the movement to abolish the routine use of alcoholics from
medicine, and I rarely advise such in my practice."--EDWARD R.
BALDWIN, M. D., Saranac Lake Sanitarium, New York.

"I seldom prescribe alcohol."--GEORGE BLUMER, M. D., Yale
Medical School, New Haven, Conn.

"WHEREAS, The study of alcohol from a scientific standpoint has
demonstrated that its action is deceptive, and that it does not
have the medical properties that we once claimed for it; now,
therefore, be it

"_Resolved_, By the West Virginia State Medical Association,
That we deplore the fact that our profession has been quoted so
long as claiming for it virtues which it does not possess, and
that we earnestly pledge ourselves to discourage the use of it,
both in and out of the sick room."--_Resolution passed at annual
meeting May, 1908._

"I have been actively engaged in the practice of medicine for
nearly twenty-five years, in the early portion of which I
prescribed alcoholics moderately but yet with considerable
frequency. For the past ten years I have been finding
professionally less place for alcoholics of any sort in my
practise, and for perhaps three years I have scarcely ever
prescribed them. I am satisfied that my cases of pneumonia and
typhoid come through in better condition without anything
alcoholic, even wines, and I no longer prescribe these at all in
cases of tuberculosis. I have noted also that among my
professional associates of the thinking rather than of the
automatic type, the medicinal use of alcohol is rapidly
lessening."--C. G. HICKEY, M. D., Lecturer on Medicine, Denver
and Gross College of Medicine, Denver, Colorado.

"In the thirteen years