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Southland Times, Issue 733, 7 October 1867, Page 2

A PopuiiAß Vice. — The " I .ancefc " says that there are probably few observant medical men who have failed to notice a habit which has been on the increase for Borne years past, and which seriously threatens the moral and physical integrity of society. The growing tendency of those even who3e lives are gentle, and whose minds are educated, to indulge in alcoholic stimulation, is a fact which the profession would do well to recognise and protest against. It takes the form of an occasional glass at odd times during the day, an extra dose at lunch, a glass of sherry or two more or less frequently in the course of the afternoon, another from the table when the cloth is laid for dinner. Not; uncommonly a flask of gherry accompanies the blue book in the carriage. In course of time the results of these indulgences do not fail to present themselves in the nausea and retching which accompany the morning toilet, the husky forenoon voice, the want of appetite for breakfast, the vague dyspeptic symptoms which lurk aboub during the day. More remotely it is for a shattered nervous systam that the patieut~or "person" seeks relief irom the , physician,