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AUTHORITIES WOETH QUOTING. THE MEDICAL; PROFESSION. UP.TO.DATFomipNS., SIR VICTOR ~~HOESLEY, PJUS., F.R.C.S., M.8., 8.5., Lone.—"Ther« is only one kind of temperance, *nd that' is total abstinence." SIE SPENCER WELLS, Bart, M.D.,; F.R.S —"It is only lately we h*T« bo; gun to regard alcohol in its true lijht u a DRUG, and not as » FOOD." SIR JAMES BARB, • : M;D.~" Alcohol is not a' ; food in- tho proper • acceptance - of the term." , ' "„\ r - DR;'T; B. ' HTSLOP, Bethleheih' Royal Asylum for the Insane, in tho "Encyclopaedia Medica."—"lntemperanoo. does not mean obvious and palpable drunkenness. From the r very moment in - which alcohol has disturbed the healthy eierciso of the mental faculties, or has impaired the moral sense by unduly ex- . citing the animal, passions, or has is any way unfitted a person for discharging his duties ill the proper struggle for survival, from that moment has there been guilt of intemperance." DE. • CLOUSTON, Medical , Superintendent of the Morningside Lunatic Asylum, Edinburgh.—"The moment w# have a craving for something that, if attained, would be hurtful to the organ- . ism, then we hare something that ia contrary to Nature's law, ana is more'; or'less of the nature of disease." , PROP. KEAEPELIN, of UtmieL"The powers of conception and judgment are from. the first distinctly affected, although he who takes the alcohol is quite unconscious that it has this effect. The actual facts are exactly the opposite to the popular belief. I must confess that rnr own experiments, extending over more than ten yeari, ana'the theoretical deductions therefrom, have mad# me an' opponent of alcohol." SIR W. BROADBENT, M.D., K.C.V.0., LL.D., ctc. —'"A falsehood which dies hard is the' idea ' that stimulants of whatever kind actually giro strength and aro necessary for tno maintenance of health and vigour." DR. ROBERT JONES,. FJLC.S. (Eridence givon before the Inter-Dopart-mental Council on /.'Physical ' Deterioration).—'"Alcbliol . . creates an enormous loss'to the community' through destroying the productiveness of the (killed ' craftsman." srR FREDERICK TREVES, Bart., G.C.V.0., C.8., LL.D., .. FJI.C.S.-"Alco-hol is a .curiously. insidious poison. A young'man ; cannot possibly be 'fit* if he. takes alcohol. By no possibility can-he want it."; 1• ' ; . ■ In 1904 a. petition, signed by 15,004 British • medical < men and women was sent to the' Education Department urging that .instruction', on the nature and effects .of'alcohol bo made compulsory, in all schoqls throughout the United: King-: dom.' The: Education , Department of Great Britain took their advice, arid the Zealand • Education Department has followed its example in authorising the publication ; of the Temperanoo Wall Sheets. Reed them. • ;. , ELECTORS!, ..Compare this/ evidence with the antiquato<f medical eriddnoe already '~ quoted, and still probably 1 to be quoted by the Liquor Trade. -To,'be up-to-date scientifically,' there '.is: only one courso open to tho doctors on . the 'Polling Day,, to Vote National Prohibition. STRIKE. OUT THE TOP' LINE: ON ; . . BOTH BALLOT PAPERS.

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