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itmeAns intolerance. PROHIBITIONISTS iSAY ' (1) "Alqoliol will be available for medicinal purposes." (2) "Alcohol is utterly useless in any form and for any purpose and - • ■ must be abolished." . ' 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. I - The second is supplied by licensed houses in the form of Brandy, Whisky Wine, Stout, and Ale. . - . J> Think seriously before depriving yourself and your family of the right to purchase BEVERAGE 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? ■ •■■ ' ■.•./■'-■ ■ ■ ' I ■ . WHAT GREAT DOCTORS SAY. A GREAT CONSENSUS OF MEDICAL AUTHORITY. "The 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 requiremerits of the individual must be the governing rule,; v 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 maybe 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—. "AS 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 BEN& FICIAL, WHICH DOES NOT BY EXCESS BECOME INJURIOUS." (Signed by) T. McCJALL 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 1 ~ • Physiology, -; King's College, London; JONATHAN HUTOHINSON; ROBERT HUTCHISON; EDMUND OWEN, LL.D., F.R.C.S.; P. H. PYE-SMTTH; FRED. T. ROBERTS, M.D., B.Sc, F.R.C.P.; EDGECOMBE YENNING, F.R.C.S. I „?,. ,Tn^ 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. • .-•■■'■ ALCOHOL IS NECESSARY. LEADING NEW ZEALAND OPINION. DR._T. ED. A. VALINTINE, Chief Medical Officer and Inspector-General of Hospitals, says:— "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:— "I ntl? c epidemic the man who took it. (alcohol) in moderation had 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 get-those acute disease in the same way as a man who does not touch it. -That is my experience." DO NOT BE MISLED BY DESIGNING PROHIBITIONISTS AND WILY POLITICIANS.

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