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IT MEANS INTOLERANCE. 'PttOJdLXBITIQNISTS ■ feAY —" (1) "Alcohol will bo available for medicinal purposes." (2) "Alcohol is utterly useless in any form and for any'puroose and . must be abolished." . ' ; .. . - i DO YOU KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN— (1) Chemist's Medicinal Alcohol? (2) Beverage Alcohol? The first is supplied in a small phial or bottle by the chemist. The second is supplied by licensed houses in the form of Brandy, Whisky Wine, Stout, and Ale. *' Think seriously before depriving yourself and your family of the right to purchase BEVEKAGE Alcohol, and do not be misled by Prohibitionists who say you will get supplies from chemists. How many-thousands owe their lives to-day to the combination of the value of alcohol and food properties as contained in Brandy Whisky Wine Stout, and Invalid Ale? ' ' __ / WHAT GREAT DOCTORS SAY. A GREAT CONSENSUS OF MEDICAL AUTHORITY. Lancet," with the object of putting the Public right on the Liquor Question, asked the highest medical "authorities for a pronouncement". This is what the "Lancet" published:—• "In view of the statements frequently made as to present medical opinion regarding alcohol and alcoholic beverages, we, the undersigned, think it desirable to issue the following short statement on. the subject —a statement which, we believe, represents.,the. opinions of the leading clinical teachers as well as of the great majority of the medical practitioners. - A RAPID AND TRUSTWORTHY RESTORATIVE— . _ "Recognising that, in prescribing alcohol, the requirements of the individual must be the governing rule, we are convinced of the correctness of the opinion, so long and generally held, that in disease alcohol is. a rapid and trustworthy restorative. In many cases it may be truly described as life-preserving owing to its power to sustain cardiac and nervous energy, while protecting the existing nitrogenous ■tissues." . . ALCOHOL AS A FOOD'^S AN ARTICLE OF DIET WE HOLD THAT THE UNIVERSAL BELIEF OF CIVILISED MANKIND, THAT THE MODERATE USE ..OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES IS, FOR ADULTS USUALLY BENEFICIAL, IS AMPLY JUSTIFIED.'' "We deplore the evils arising from the abuse of alcoholic beverages But it is obvious that THERE IS NOTHING; HOWEVER BENEFICIAL, WHICH DOES NOT BY EXCESS BECOME INJURIOUS." (Signed by) - . T. McOALL ANDERSON, M.D., Regius Professor of Medicine, University of Glasgow. ALFRED G. BARRS. WILLIAM H. BENNETT, X.C.V.0., F.R.C.S. JAMES CHRICHTON BROWNE. W. E. DIXON. DYCE DUCKWORTH, M.D.. LL.D. THOMAS R. FRASER, M.D., F.R.S. T. R. GLYNN, W. R. GOWERS, M.D., F.R.S.; W. D. HALLIBURTON, M.D., LL.D., F.R.C.P,. F.R.S., Professor of Physiology, King's College, Xondon; JONATHAN HUTOBINSON-,. ROBERT HUTCHISON; EDMUND OWEN, LL.D., F.R.C.S.; P. H. PYE-SMITH; FRED. T. ROBERTS, M.D., B.Sc., F.R.C.P.; EDGECOMBE YENNING, F.R.C.S. That statement impartially expresses the opinion of the great majority of medical men all over the world, and the view held by all the great medical authorities. Medical science is opposed, to the abuse, and not to the use, of alcohol. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO NAME ANY MEDICAL MAN OF THE HIGHEST REPUTE WHO CONDEMNS THE HABITUAL MODERATE USE OF MALT LIQUOR—BEER, ALE, STOUT. ALCOHOL IS NECESSARY. | LEADING NEW ZEALAND OPINION. DR. T. H. A. VALINTINE, Chief Medical Officer and Inspector-General of Hospitals, says:— , t "Certainly, from what I have seen during the Epidemic, I am convinced that it is necessary that Alcohol should be available to the . ■ people." DR. KINGTON FYFFE, President of the British Medical Association, says:— "In the epidemic the man who took it (alcohol) in moderation tad 1 , the advantage. A man who took a reasonable amount of alcohol— .two or three, whiskies a day—did not get the disease so readily as other people. _ I take alcohol myself, and I could not have got through the epidemic without it. In my general practice I have found that a moderate drinker does not set those acute disease in the same way as a man who does not toudrit. That is my experience." DO NOT BE MISLED BY DESIGNING PROHIBITIONISTS AND WILY POLITICIANS.

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