SCIENCE JOTTINGS
Infant mortality is mainly due to two causes, the substitution of farinaceous food for milk, and the delusion that ale or stout is necessary as an article of diet for nursingmothers. —Dr. Edis. The moderate use of alcohol is full of dangers. Alcohol could not be called a foodstuff in the proper sense of the word. The net result of its use is injury and not a benefit. —Dr. Atwater.
Nothing is more interesting tome than to see in certain utterances that have been made by Sir Michael Foster and Sir James Crichton Browne that there has been no attempt whatever to bolster up the old idea that alcohol was an advantage to us as a food. We now start fair on an absolute basis that alcohol is not a food. — Sir Victor Horsley.
Alcohol is the chloroform which the working man takes to make him work on low wages. — London Lecturer.
Vote for No-License. Vote for National Prohibition. Vote out the Drink Traffic.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 1077, 2 December 1911, Page 4
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166SCIENCE JOTTINGS Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 1077, 2 December 1911, Page 4
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