PROHIBITION.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR. Sir, — Mr George Wilks, in your Saturday's issue, asks : "Is alcohol a necessity for the successful operations of digestion ?" and then answers " My reply is • Yes.' " Well, my reply is ' No, I—and1 — and one reply is worth about as much as the other, till we come to look at the facts. There is a very general agreement among scientific men thnt alcohol is not a necessity for the successful operations of digestion. Many millions of human beings never touch alcohol from the cradle to the grave, and yet manage to digest their food. Total abstainers are nol more liable to dyspepsia than other men. Samson and John the Baptist were brought up as total abstainers (Nazarites), and yet appear to have managed " the operations of digestion " successfully. When Mr Wilks says 11 Grapes, apples, plums, cherries, &c, contain alcohol," and that " bread is changed into a kind of alcoholic form before becoming blood," he states what is not tbe case, and shows his ignorance of chemistry. It would be just as correct to say that every block of marble contained a statue of Venus, or that every tree contained armchairs and sheephurdles ! I am, <fee , J. Greenwood.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 48, 25 August 1896, Page 2
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204PROHIBITION. Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 48, 25 August 1896, Page 2
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