"In 230 typhoid cases in St. Mary's Hospital, Dr. Chambers reduced the ratio of deaths from 1 in 5 with alcohol to 1 in 40 without it. Dr. Perry, of Glasgow, found that of 534 cases treated with alcohol, 138 died, while of 491 treated without alcohol, only 9 died." In a recent text-book on medicine occurs the following:-- "English physicians use spirits in fevers, and all experience sustains the conviction that no substitute has been found for them." In a late number of the _Temperance Record_, Dr. Smith gives a different view of the experience of English physicians:-- "When Bentley Todd was at King's College, and leading his profession, brandy was the rule in febrile cases. Then the mortality varied from twenty-five to thirty-five per cent. That the treatment was as fatal as the disease, experience demonstrates:-- "1. Professor W. T. Gairdner, of Glasgow, writing to the Lancet (1864), gave his experience as follows:-- Fever cases Average of treated. wine and spirits. Mortality. 1,829 34 oz. to each 17.69 per cent. 595 2-1/2 oz. to each 11.93 per cent. 212 none 1 death only. (young lives) "These were mostly typhus cases, but the rationale, so far as alcohol is concerned, is the same as in typhoid. "2. At the British Medical Association in 1879, Professor H. MacNaughton Jones gave particulars of 340 cases of typhus, typhoid and simple fever. I append a summary:-- Cases. Deaths. Mortality per cent. Given brandy 58 19 32.7 Given claret 51 2 3.8 Given no alcohol 231 4 1.7 "3. Dr. J. C. Pearson writes to the _Lancet_ (Dec. 5 and 26, 1891), giving his experience of typhoid. He had treated several hundreds of cases without a single death, and never prescribed stimulants in any shape or form in the disease. "4. Dr. Knox Bond writes to the _Lancet_ (Nov. 25, 1893), giving his experience of typhoid at the Liverpool Fever Hospital. He says: 'As a resident for some years in the fever hospitals, my views of the value of alcohol in fever underwent, solely as a result of the experience there gained, entire modification. The conviction became forced upon my mind that in no case in which it was used did benefit to the patient ensue; that in a proportion of cases its use was distinctly hurtful; and that in a small but appreciable number of cases the resultant harm was sufficient to tilt the balance as against the recovery of the patient.' "In plain terms, alcohol tended to the destruction of the patients. Dr. Bond's figures are:-- No. of cases. No. of deaths.