SOME OTHER AUTHORISTIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 90, 29 November 1911, Page 5

SOME OTHER AUTHORISTIES.

“Alcohol is a poison—so is strychnine: so is arsenic: so is opium. It ranks with these agents. Health is alwavs in some way or other injured by it.”—Sir Clark, M.D., Physician to Queen Victoria.

“The moment we have a craving for something that, if attained, would bo hurtful to the organism, then we have something that is contrary to Nature’s law, and is more or less of the nature cl a disease. . . . Such needs and desires soon become hereditary. We feel them because our fathers created them.”—Dr; (Houston, Med. Snpt. Morningside Asylum, Edinburgh. “Beer is a far more dangerous enemy to Germany than'all tiie armies of France.”—Von Moltke. (The Kaiser has adopted this view.) “The man under the influence of small quantities of alcohol has no

right to believe his own senses. Ho cannot trust them to give him correct facts, and he cannot rely upon his judgment for the interpretation of facts.”—Prof. Sims-Woodhead, M.D.

“A man who has taken one glass of beer is to that extent less competent to judge whether he ought to take an-other.’’-—Sir Victor Horsley, F.R.S, F.R 0.5., Professor of Pathology, University College, London. “The soldier who abstains altogether is the best man. He can accomplish more, can march oettcr, an 1 is a better soldier than the man who drinks even moderately. Mentally and physically ho is better. Brandy is the worst poison of all. Next to it comes leer. Each limits the capacity and lowers iiur.d, body and soul. Strong d'ink 'ires and only increases thirst. For soldiers water, coffee,and above all tea are the best drinks.”—Count Von Haeseler, Commander Sixteenth German Army Corps. “It is only lately we have begun to regard alcohol in its true light, as a drug and not as a food.”—Sir Spencer Wells, Bart., M.D., F.R.S. “For every real drunkard, there are fifty others suffering from the effects of alcohol.”—George Harlev, M.D.

“If I could destroy to-morrow the desire for strong drink in the people of England, what changes we would see. Wo should see our gaols and workhouses empty. We should seo more lives saved in twelve months than are consumed in a century of hitter and savage war.”—Rt. Hon. .1 oseph Chamberlain. “Fill ’em up again.”—Satan.*