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New Zealand Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 5736, 3 November 1905, Page 6

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DOCTORS’ OPINIONS. ALL tho best physiological'authorities aro agreed as to the disadvantages of excess in tne use of alcoholic beverages, but a large proportion by their example and not a few by their teaching, seem to favour the use of small quantities, or the' moderate consumption of alcoholic drinks for either.their agreeable effects or their hygienic value. Now Dr Chappie a candidate for Newtown, has quoted Sir Frederick Treves as saying that "alcohol is a most insidious poison. If Sir Frederick said this, he might have used the same adjective to quality quite a number of commodities in common use. Medical men are aware that chemists dispense poisons to their order, and that it is only the temperate or moderate use in specific doses that prevents the doctors’ patients from being poisoned by the drug designed to make them well. Another factor -which prevents wholesale poisoning by drugs is their dilution by water, and very few people nowadays take spirits neat, and a glass of beer to the tired working man is distinctly beneficial and gratifying. Thousands demonstrate this by their habit and constant fitness for work. At the meeting of the International Physiological Congress, at Cambridge, England, Sir Michael Foster, the president, obtained a consensus of opinion from the leading physiologists of the present day. Inter alia, this opinion states:—“Careful ; experiments show that alcohol taken in a diluted form, and In moderation, is oxidised within the body, and so supplies energy like common articles of food, and that it is physiologically incorrect to designate it a poison—that is. which can only do harm, and never good to the body." There are very few doctors who do not in practice enjoy a drop of whisky and water. Tho history of the world shows that tho human system has always craved a stimulant, and that being so, why should no-Pcense or prohibition be forced upon us?

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