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STRONG OPINIONS.

Dr. Mayo, the noted Minnesota physician. in his Presidential address before the Medical Association of U.S.A., declared: “Alcohol’s only place now in the arts and sciences. National prohibition would be welcomed by the medical profession.” I)r. Mayo said: “We mus* aid in all that will el vate the general standard of and conserve the American citizen. Prohibition is a war measure, the value of which is beyond discussion. Medicine has reached a period when alcohol is rarely employed as a drug, having been displaced by better remedies.” The Commissioner of Health for New York City said the nation requires to-day three times as much alcohol as formerly, but needs it for munitions. “We want it,” he added, “tr explode in the enemy’s trenches, and not in our own stomachs.”

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White Ribbon, Volume 23, Issue 269, 19 November 1917, Page 4

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STRONG OPINIONS. White Ribbon, Volume 23, Issue 269, 19 November 1917, Page 4

STRONG OPINIONS. White Ribbon, Volume 23, Issue 269, 19 November 1917, Page 4

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