of severe competition will be up to the sample?

"But there is another and a sadder view of the case. We cannot
believe that all the eulogies of all the medical trumpeters of
the wines and the spirits are wilfully false or even
exaggerated. It is a lamentable fact that a vast number of
doctors have a genuine faith in the value and virtue of these
pernicious drinks. It is not simply a question of medicinal use,
though even on that we should join issue. These things are
vaunted as valuable for the promotion of health in spite of all
the accumulating evidence to the contrary. We wish that these
doctors would carefully study this evidence. The pity of it is
that the very worst offenders are the least likely to study it.
We suppose they must die out, and be replaced by men less
prejudiced and bound by the chain of alcoholic habit. We can
only regret that they should be doing so much harm in fastening
the fetters of drink on other people, and hindering their
emancipation from the evil customs which play havoc amongst
us."--_Medical Pioneer._

ALCOHOL AND CHILDREN:--"Parents often labor under the delusion
that alcoholic drinks are good for children and act as tonics.
Mothers will put drops of brandy into the milk with which their
children are fed, increasing the quantity with the age of the
recipient. In the illness of children the same is given to meet
disturbances of the stomach or to increase growth and
development, without taking the advice of any medical man as to
the wisdom of the practice. This is all erroneous. The
excitement of the central nervous system under alcohol,
excitement which seems to be a relief to weariness and to give
strength, is nothing more than temporary at best, and injurious,
causing in fact symptoms of alcoholic poisoning, abnormal
excitement, ending, in extreme cases, in convulsions succeeded
by exhaustion of body and mind, and inducing a kind of
paralysis. Many cases of stomach and gastric catarrh in children
followed by emaciation and debility are due to the early
administration of alcoholic drinks; and impediment of growth
from the same cause is thereby produced. The most serious
derangement is that of the nervous system, and the development
in the young, under the influence of alcohol, of what is known
as nervousness, to which is added the mo