y 8 or 10
quarts of the best Bavarian beer in a year he will have taken
into his system as much nourishment as is contained in a
five-pound loaf of bread."--_Liebig, the great German chemist._

"Beer-drinker's heart is a term well-known to the physicians of
our large hospitals, and indicates a special condition of
unhealthy enlargement of the heart due to dilatation,
accompanied by some increase of tissue and of fat. Doctors Bauer
and Bollinger found that in Munich one in every sixteen of the
hospital patients died from this disorder. It is common in
Germany--the land of beer-drinking--and proves incontestably
that the habit of drinking even such a mild alcoholic beverage
as lager-beer is one that is undesirable and unwise."--_From
"Alcohol and the Human Body," by Sir Victor Horsley, M. D.,
London._

"Nothing is more erroneous from the physician's standpoint, than
to think of diminishing the destructive effects of alcoholism by
substituting beer for other alcoholic drinks, or that the
victims of drink are found only in those countries where whisky
helps the people of a low grade of culture to forget their
poverty and misery."--PROF. STRUMPEL, Breslau, Germany.

"The result of extolling beer as the mightiest enemy of whisky
and brandy has been that the consumption of the distilled
liquors has changed very little, while to these liquors has been
added beer, the use of which has led to a great and still
increasing beer alcoholism. * * *

"The beer drinker who is not at all a drunkard in the popular
sense, is very frequently the victim of chronic inflammation of
the kidneys. * * * An enlarged and fatty condition of the liver,
marked by a dull pain in the region of the organ, often follows
from the habitual use of beer. The death-rate from liver
diseases among brewers of beer in England is more than double
that in all other occupations. * * * Beer-drinkers have a marked
tendency to enlargement of the stomach, and to chronic
diarrhoea. Beer causes also inflammation of the nerves. This is
often announced by 'rheumatic' pains in the legs. * * * Beer
alcoholism, as well as alcoholism in general, lowers the
resistance of the body to all diseases by injuring most of the
organs. And herein lies the chief danger in the general
wide-spread use of beer. The drinker is e