TEETOTAL DRINKS.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XIV, Issue 830, 1 February 1906, Page 25

TEETOTAL DRINKS.

According to the “ Wine and Sp'rit Trade Record” several distinguished Paris doctors have been writing n recent issues of “ L’Eevenment” upon the folly of those members of the public who, by an inordinate use of teetotal drink, “thin their b.ood and debilitate their stomachs.” Dr. Mer-cier-Lebon, in particular, points out that append citis is by statistics shown to be far more preva ent among teetotallers than among moderate users of alcohol, probably on account of the weakening of the appendix by excessive mineralisation. “We of the old school,” -continues Dr. Mercier-Lebon, “dr nk our bott e of Medoc when dining, with the result that we are gay and well, free from appendicitis, and are esteemed, I believe, by the ladies far more h ghly than are the decadent young men of to-day.”