WHERE DOCTORS DIFFER.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 28, 3 October 1913, Page 4

WHERE DOCTORS DIFFER.

"A Tragedy for the Tea Party" i how the Wellington "Post" describe the recent cablegram from i Paris, an thus comments:—"One in every te water-drinkers is-predisposed to appen dicitis against only "one in two hnn dred consumers of* alcohol," says th Medical Press of Paris. Further, top er's who have drunk much beer becaus jt was beer, may hare, a new pleasur in the memory of countless pints, othe assurance of that Parisian pape that the liquor was an "eupeptic'? an a "prophylactic." That cable mes sage may make the average constabl nervous about arresting a man lor s r called drunkenness. "If the accuse pleads that he had charged hims?l with eupeptics and prophylactics as safeguard against appendicitis, and i he reads the statistics as received fro: Paris, what is a Magistrate to do i: this humanitarian age? Will it b deemed necessary to define, in th. Poiice Offences Act, the limitations o indulgence in eupeptics as an insur ance against the perils of water-drink nig: 1 Millions, at the end of their re sources for new excuses, will glad! seize those words from Paris—and sa to thevteetotallers: The cup that doe? not inebriate does not always cheer One in ten against one in two hun dred; ten per cent, against half cf on per cent. But the friends of the crysta spring have yet to speak, and the; will have behind them a mighty arm? of medical men, prepared to cTscharg polysyllabic terms at the Medica Press of Paris. .Doctors differ jus as remarkably as lawyers, and th< same practitioner may radically cnang liis beliefs as his experience widen? Tho science and art of medicine an surgery have progressed, but the? have not yet left the guesswork stage The human body and mind have sti! a few mysteries for tiie analyists. Th l Prohibition Party in New Zealand.wil exert itself to marshal formidable fig ures against the French report, an< it will continue trying to convince the ]>eople that it is fail-, by bare majority, to wipe out a preventive of ap pendicitis.