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STMEANS -INtOLERANCL PROHIBITIONISTS SAY | (1) "Alqohol will be available for medicinal purposes." ■ (2) "Alcohol is utterly useless in any form and for any purpose and must be abolished." ' ' \o 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. ™- -K e s x ccond I i£r 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 Prohibitionistswho say you will get supplies from chemists. ■ - ■ How many thousands owe Aheir lives to-day to the combination of the l&fznfi™M dJe? d *ro^ s as coata-ed in Brandy, Whisky, Wine, ■ . '**>■' ■ - •■''' 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 js what the "Lancet" published:— . v ''■■ "In view of the statements frequently made as to present medical opinion regarding alcohol and alcoholic beverages, we, the undersigned tnink it desirable to issue the following short statement on the subject —a statement which, we believe, represents the opinions of theleadine: titSner chers as well as of the §reat of the medical pracA RAPID AND TRUSTWORTHY RESTORATIVE— *i. • ''.^ogpis^g that, in prescribing alcohol, the requirements of the individual must .be the governing rule, we are convinced of the xjorrectness of the opinion, so long and generally held, that in disease alcohol is a rapid and trustworthy restorative. In many cases it \m% be tTXX}? descnbed as life-preserving owing to its power to sustain S'sues 0" nervous energy, while protecting the existing nitrogenous ALCOHOL AS A FOOD— oat^l^S^™l^ 0F I>IET-_WE HOLD THAT THE UNIVERSAL BELIEF OF CIVILISED MANKIND THAT THE MODERATE '.'We deplore the evils arising from the abuse of alcoholic beverages S^^tlß^^^ that THERE IS NOTHING, HOWEVER BENEFICIAL, WHICH DOES NOT BY EXCESS BECOME INJURIOUS." (Signed by) T. McCALL ANDERSON, M.D., Regius Professor of Medicine University of Glasgow. ALFRED G. BARRS. WILLIAM H. BENNETT, K.C.V.O FR C S JAMES CHRICHTON BROWNE ' W. E. DIXON. DYCE DUCKWORTH, M.D., LL.D THOMAS R. FRASER, M.D,, F.R.S. RRnS N ' J^S 0??1^^ S- D-» FRS- SW. D. HALLIBURTON, M.D., LL.D., F.R.C.P,. F.R.S., Professor of £S£? gy ' Kiag's College, London; JONATHAN nw™?1^??; * nT HUTCHISON; EDMUND SfvSSr^'S:^-^ 0-8-» P- H- PYE-SMTTH; FRED. T. vSSTO%, D -> B'Sc- 'F.R.0.P.; EDGECOMBE VENof mpSf™ 1^ n 6nt finJ? artially j expresses £he opinion, of the great majority authmS men ll f 1,? ve 1 r *hp ™}*> and the view held by all the great medical afcohol Medical science is opposed to" the abuse, and not to the use, of i ' ' % ' '■ j -— — — .. ■ . ALCOHOL IS NECESSARY. LEADING NEW ZEALAND OPINION. 15 ' ChM M*Bcal Gfficer of from what I have seen during the Epidemic I* am convinced that it is necessary that Alcohol should be bailable' to tIS DR. KINGTON.FWFE, President of the British Medical Association, says:- ---' the adv l a nfeJ >iaemi P mT wJ lli I took & (alcohol) in moderation had '+w« nr+T g\- i A ma, n wh? took a reasonable amdunt of alcohol— Sok^^ re?^ sklf f day-«M not get the disease soTeadily^sXr DO NOT BE «*'| Si H Dw BY v D i>E S,aN i|J C N P R OH IBI T,O [ , 1S TS

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