Use of Alcohol in the Treatment of Disease.--In the London Temperance Hospital alcohol was prescribed seventy-five times in thirty-three years. The death rate in this hospital has been lower than that of most general hospitals. Sir William Collins, after serving nineteen years as surgeon in this hospital, said:-- "In my experience, speaking as a surgeon, the use of alcohol is not essential for successful surgery.... At the London Temperance Hospital, where alcohol is very rarely prescribed, the mortality in amputation cases and in operation cases generally is remarkably low. Total abstainers are better subjects for operation, and recover more rapidly from accidents, than those who habitually take stimulants." In a paper read at the International Congress on Tuberculosis, in New York, 1906, Dr. Crothers remarked that alcohol as a remedy or a preventive medicine in the treatment of tuberculosis is a most dangerous drug, and that all preparations of sirups containing spirits increase, rather than diminish, the disease. Dr. Kellogg says: "The paralyzing influence of alcohol upon the white cells of the blood--a fact which is attested by all investigators--is alone sufficient to condemn the use of this drug in acute or chronic infections of any sort." [Illustration: Effect of use of alcohol on memory.] The Effect of Alcohol upon Intellectual Ability.--With regard to the supposed quickening of the mental processes Horsley and Sturge, in their recent book, _Alcohol and the Human Body_, say: