ral paralysis with which
the habit of alcoholic drinking smites its victims in the very
spring-time of life."--PROF. DEMME, of Berne, Switzerland.

"The action of the New York Board of Health, in recommending to
tenement house parents, that on the hottest days of summer a few
drops of whisky be added to the water or food of their infants,
has received a strong protest and rebuke in a meeting at
Prohibition Park, where the opinions of eminent physicians,
collected by the _Voice_, were read, condemning such a course. A
resolution of protest was also adopted."--_Sel._

"For nineteen years we lived with a physician whose success may
be estimated from this one item: He had between 1,600 and 1,700
labor cases, and never once lost the mother, and only twice the
child, and what seems still more remarkable never used
instruments. When other physicians, as often happened, would
come to him to know how he did it, he always answered, 'A woman
will do anything if you only encourage her.' Nor was obstetrics
his specialty--he had none.

"In a fifteen years' practice in Chicago and New York, where
these diseases are so very fatal, and he was much sought after
to treat them, he did not lose a case of scarlet fever,
diphtheria or cholera infantum which he managed himself, and
saved many a one where he was called in consultation, or after
some other physician. Now when such a man after an experience
more than fifty years long and as wide as the continent, gives
it as his unqualified opinion that wines, beers, liquors of
every kind, alcohol itself, are not medicines and should never
be used as such, for SCIENTIFIC reasons, not to mention moral,
is not his opinion entitled to a hearing? Isn't it probable it
weighs more than the doctor's you were just quoting? Is it too
great a risk to act upon it?"--_Pacific Ensign._

"A lady, Mrs. A., tenderly nurtured, refined, cultured, moving
in an influential position, belonged to a family in whom the
tendency to intemperance existed. Realizing the danger, she, for
seven years of her married life, adhered to total abstinence.
Illness came, and the doctor ordered wine; and her husband, deaf
to her arguments, insisted on her taking it. She fell into
habits of intemperance. Her husband died, and for a time she
pulled up and trained as a hospital nurse