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physiological aspects of the alcohol question it may not be amiss to refer to some statements from physicians about which some fuss has been made in the press of late. The recent pronouncement in favor of the value of alcoholic beverages by certain eminent British phy- sicians and scientists has been attacked by the anti- alcoholists as an uncalled-for advance by the liquor ele- ment. It turns out, however, that it was merely a dig- 102 Scientists' on Alcoholic Drink. nified response to certain innuendoes made by a tee- total physician in Canada with the disingenuousness characteristic of his kind. The London Hospital pub- lishes this account of the occurrence : The question of the dietetic and medicinal position of al- cohol is with us once again. A number of well known phy- sicians and surgeons, together with certain professors of physiology, have felt it their duty to issue a collective ex- pression of opinion in favor of the value of alcoholic bev- erages both in health and disease. It is not difficult to identify the circumstances which have led to this step. Not many months have elapsed since a prom- inent metropolitan surgeon took the opportunity offered by the meeting of the British Medical Association at Toronto to denounce the use of alcohol in every shape and form ; to proclaim its utter uselessness and even its pernicious ac-