action of
alcohol recently made by scientists, have repudiated it
altogether. * * * It is a lack of information upon this
subject--together with the fact that alcohol has been used as a
therapeutic agent for hundreds of years, during which it has
formed the basis of all tonic or stimulating treatment--that
gives alcohol its present hold upon a part of the medical
profession."--JOHN MADDEN, M. D., Portland, Oregon, formerly
professor in Milwaukee Medical College.

"Alcohol may fill an emergency when better means are not at
hand, but, apart from this, I know of no use in the practise of
medicine and surgery for which we have not better weapons at our
command. There is but one reason for the continued use of
alcohol--men use it because they love it." DR. W. F. WAUGH,
Chicago, Editor Journal of Clinical Medicine.

"If alcohol had become a candidate for recognition years ago
instead of centuries ago it is safe to say that its application
in medicine would have been very much more limited than we find
it at the present time. Its wide therapeutic use is to be
attributed in part to fallacies and misconception regarding its
pharmacology, and in part to a disinclination on the part of the
average practitioner of medicine to depart from old and
well-beaten lines."--WINFIELD S. HALL, M. D., Professor of
Physiology, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago.

"In its relation to the human system, alcohol is never
constructive and always destructive."--PROF. FRANK WOODBURY, M.
D., Philadelphia, Pa.

"The clinicians who decide for the deleterious action of alcohol
in infectious conditions have what evidence of an experimental
nature we possess at the present time to support their
impressions. The advocates of the continuous use of the drug
have this evidence against them."--HENRY F. HEWES, M. D.,
Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass.

"I am very glad that you are undertaking so important a work as
this in connection with the terrible problem of alcoholism.
Physicians need awakening in this matter; they need reform. The
evil results of alcohol are unfortunately brought to my notice
each day of my life as I pursue my vocation and my public duties
as Health Officer, and a reform in prescribing so as to
eliminate alcohol would undoubtedly have far-reaching benefi