OPINIONS IN FAVOUR OF TEMPERANCE.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3636, 21 August 1880, Page 2

OPINIONS IN FAVOUR OF TEMPERANCE.

A writer in the Christchurch Globe gires the following opinions in favour of temperance:— , :

"Beer, wine, spirits, &0., furnish no eleiLents capable of entering into the. composition of the blood, muscular fibre, or any part which is the seat of the vital principle. 730 gallons of the best Bavarian beer contain exactly as much nourishment as a five-pound loaf or three pounds of beef."—Baron Lieberg. - " One hundred parts of ordinary beer t>r porter contain 9£ parts of solid matter; and, of this, only six-tenths consist of flesh-forming matter; in other words,' it takes 1666 parts of ordinary beer or porter to obtain one part of nourishing matter. To drink „ beer or porter to nourish us, is tantamount to swallowing a sack of chaff for the sake of a grain of wheat."—Professor Lyon Playfair. "So far as the physical action is con* cerned, I do not know that we can say anything good of alcohol at all."—Dr £. Lankester. F.R.S.

" We are in conscience bound to say* that science has found that alcohol is not good, and that being simply a stimulant to the nervous system, its use is hurtful to the body of a healthy man."—Dr Markham.

" Stimulants do not create nervous power; they only enable you to use up that whiok i» left, and then they leave you

in more need of rest than you were before."—Sir Benjamin Brodie. " It is a mistaken notion that ale, wine, or spirits communicate strength j. and it ii disgraceful to see medical men propagate the error. Intoxicating liquors are neither necessary nor useful as a beverage."—Dr. O'Sullivan in the Medical Times, volume z., page 280.