Prohibition Fallacics. (PUBLISHED BY ARRANGEMENT).

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 36, 19 August 1899, Page 3

Prohibition Fallacies. (PUBLISHED BY ARRANGEMENT).

Man feais the lion's kingly tread ; Man fe<u;s the tigei"s fangs of terror : But man himself is moat to dread When mad with tocial error.

Modkkatb Drinking. We add below a number of extracts from statements by eminent physicians and physiologists, collected and -re--print&d in an exceedingly interesting pamphlet by C. Gordon Richardson, ■ entitled "Alcohpl ; A Defence of It 3 | 'IVinperstte Use 1 * '(Toronto : The National Liberal Temperance Union). By consulting this patujphbt, any

reader desirous of ascertaining where and when these statements were made, will find all reference-notes necessary for that purpose :—: —

" Beer is a refreshing, exhilarating, nutritive, and, when taken to excess, an intoxicating beverage. * * * A light beer, well flavoured with the hop is calculated to promote digestion, and may be looked upon as constituting oue of the most wholesome of the alcohohc class of beverages • it i 3i 3 no t a }] ) however, who can drink beer without experiencing inconveniences — in the case of persons with a bilious temperament, etc. " A good wine promotes the appetite, exhilarates the spirits, and increases the bodily vigor. " With tho moderately exhilarating and other properties that the clarets possess they form an exceedingly valuable kind of stimulant, both for the healthy and the °icl<:. There is scarcely any condition in which they are calculated to disagree. They form a most suitable beverage for persons of a gouty or iheumatic disposition, and also for the dyspeptic." — F. W. Pavy, M.D., F.R.5.," Felloe of the Royal College of Physicians ; Physician to and Lecturer of Physiology at Guy's Hospital. " Small quantities of these wines (claret, hock, and sherry) do not produce any appreciable retarding effect (on peptic digestion), but act as pure stimulants. Those wines, theu, may be taken with advantage, even by persons of feeble digestion, in small quantities, but not in large. " A moderate quantity of lager-beer, when well up, is favourable to stomach digestion." — Prof. Sir Wm, Roberts, M.P., F.R.S., Consulting Physician to the Manchester Royal Infirmary and Professor of Medicine in tlie Victoria University. " Foi* the hard-working student, politician, professional man, or busy merchant there is no better arrangement possible than that of taking, as the regular daily allowance, a bottle of sound ordinary wine of Bordeaux, and the number of persons with whom such a diet really disagrees is very limited." — Fiuncis E. Anstje, M.D., F.Ii.G.P., late Physician to Westminster Hospital. •' That wines and malt liquors have an action upon the atomach w Inch is pleasant and grateful is a fact most people know for themselves. That they stimulate the gastric flow and increase the muscular activity, of the stomach is probably the underlying cause of the sense of well-being which accompanies use." — J. Milker FoTHERGILL, M. D.> Edin., Physician to the Cily of London Hospital for diseases of the chdsi. " Some would dpny that it (alcohol) has any place at all, and assert that it is injurious at all timea and in all places. But such assertions are valueless ; they contradict the common experience of mankind and defeat their o\yn end by their extravagance. It is no u^e to deny the existence of facts, for they will be facts, whether we allow them or not. What we have to do is open oui eyes to their existence and regulate our conduct accordingly." — T. Lauder Brcjnton, M.D.. F.R.C P., F.R.S. " Guided by all these facts, I have been gradually led^to look npon-'fer- j mentation as a necessary ,eon<?equeuce of the manifestation *of life when that life takes place without the direct combustion due to f reevpfcygen." — Pasteur , — Prof. Schotzknberger, Director at ' 'the'TGh'emic&l Laboratory, a,t the Soi-bonne. „' *V,ln .no- part of Qermany do the' apothecaries' tstabliohmsnts brfngv^o? low- a price as in ths rich cities on.tb^s' Rhene, for there wine is the universal;, medicine for the healthy as well" its 'lKb't sick ; it is considered aa milk for the aged.— Bakon Liebig. "'* - f*-.?'