at alcohol has been much
abused in the treatment of the sick, and is largely discarding
it. I hardly find occasion to prescribe it once a year."--W. A.
PLECKER, M. D., Sec'y State Board of Health, Hampton, Va.

"The use of alcohol as a beverage or therapeutically, is in
either case a habit of the user. The stimulation is but
temporary, the reaction leaving the nerve cells of the
individual with less resisting power than before the ingestion
of alcohol. * * * Never permit a verbal or written prescription
of yours to give rise to the use of a habit forming
drug."--_From a lecture to students in Omaha Medical College by
J. M. Aiken, M. D., Clinical Instructor and Lecturer upon
Nervous and Mental Diseases._

"The use of spirits as a stimulant in diseases, except in a very
limited circle, is a mere empiricism for which no good reasons
can be given. The teachings of medical men are no more to be
followed blindly and without question. The tests of alcohol as a
tonic, as a food, as a stimulant, as a retarder of waste, are
all negative. There is no reliable evidence to support these
claims, but a constant accumulation of facts to indicate the
danger from the use of spirits. To give alcohol or any other
drug without some rational theory in accord with the scientific
researches of to-day is unpardonable."--DR. T. D. CROTHERS,
Hartford, Conn., Editor of the Journal of Inebriety.

"Many physicians prescribe alcohol only because it is the desire
of the patient, and because patients refuse medicine which the
physicians would rather use."--EVERETT HOOPER, M. D. Boston,
Mass.

"You are right in indicting alcohol for its insidious wrongs to
humanity. It is an old and sly offender and very much the
'mocker' in medical practise that it has been pronounced in holy
writ. It exhausts the latent energy of the organism often when
that power is most needed to conserve the failing strength of
the body in the battle with disease."--DR. C. H. HUGHES, St.
Louis, Missouri.

"The best class of thinkers, men of the best intellectual gauge,
are those who are doing away with this miserable, unscientific
practise of giving liquor."--DR. BOYNTON, Clifton Springs, N. Y.

"I believe that in the scientific light of the present era
alcohol should be classed among the anaesthetics and poi