TEMPERANCE COLUMN.

Waipa Post, Volume I, Issue 26, 14 July 1911, Page 4

TEMPERANCE COLUMN.

(This column is the property of the Waikato No-License Leagi-e, and .., we are in no way responsible for the opinions expressed. — Ed. IV. P.)

THE EVIDENCE OF EMINENT DOCTORS ON DRINK.

SIR B. W. RICHARDSON.

In whatever direction the physician turns his attention to determine the persistent attacks of alcohol, he sees nothing but disease and death. SIR VICTOR HORSLEY.

The only proper use of alcohol to an ordinary healthy person is its disuse. Either as a food or a drug, we recognise that alcohol is of no service—or of very little—to the community. No service as a food, an'd very doubtful service as a drug. A system of legislation should be enacted whereby the sale and use of alcohol shall be very largely prohibited and prevented. The medical profession knows well that alcohol is a potent cause of disease, poverty and death. SIR WM. GULL. Alcohol is'the most destructive agent that we are aware of in this country. I hardly know any more potent cause of disease than alcohol.

SIR ANDREW CLARKE. When I think of these things, I am disposed . . . to give up my profession, to give up everything and go forth on a holy crusade, preaching to all men — BEWARE OF THIS ENEMY OF THE RACE. More than three-fourths of the disorders in what we call fashionable life arise from the use of alcohol. DR. B. W. CARPENTER. There is no scientific justification' for the employment of alcohol in medicine. Alcohol is a virulent poison, and as such should be placed in the list with arsenic, mercury and other dangerous drugs. SIR ASTLEY COOPER. Spirits and poison are synonymous terms. DR. NORMAN KERR. Alcohol is the pathological fraud of frauds. SIR WILLIAM PAGET. I the task of operating on a drinker.