Medical use of alcohol a bulwark of the liquor traffic--Alcohol not a Food--Alcohol reduces temperature--Food principle of grains and fruits destroyed by fermentation--Alcohol not a Stimulant--Experiments proving this--Alcohol not a tonic--Professor Atwater on Alcohol as Food 96 CHAPTER VII. ALCOHOL IN PHARMACY. Strong tinctures rouse desire for drink in reformed inebriates--Glycerine and acetic acid to preserve drugs--Non-alcohol tinctures in use at London Temperance Hospital--Sale of liquor in drug-stores condemned by pharmacists 131 CHAPTER VIII. DISEASES, AND THEIR TREATMENT WITHOUT ALCOHOL. Alcoholic Craving--Anaemia--Apoplexy--Boils and Carbuncle--Catarrh--Hay-Fever--Colds--Colic--Cholera--Cholera Infantum--Consumption--Displacements--Debility--Diarrhoea-- Dysentery--Dyspepsia--Fainting--Fits--Flatulence--Headache-- Hemorrhage--Heart Disease--Heart Failure--Insomnia--La Grippe--Measles--Malaria--Neuralgia--Nausea--Pneumonia--Pain After Food--Snake-bite--Rheumatism--Spasms--Shock--Sudden Illness--Sunstroke--Typhoid Fever--Vomiting 140 CHAPTER IX. ALCOHOL AND NURSING MOTHERS. Beer not good for nursing mothers--Helpful diet--Opinions of medical men--Analysis of milk of a temperate woman--Of a drinking woman--Advice of Dr. James Edmunds, of the Lying-In Hospital, London--How to feed the baby--Case of a young mother who used beer--Nathan S. Davis on beer and gin 234 CHAPTER X. COMPARATIVE DEATH-RATES WITH AND WITHOUT THE USE OF ALCOHOL. Fewer deaths in smallpox hospitals without alcohol--200 cases of scarlet fever without alcohol--Non-alcoholic treatment of fevers with less than 5 per cent. death-rate--Report of cases in English and Scotch hospitals--340 cases of typhus--London Lancet articles on typhoid--Mercy Hospital, Chicago--Death-rates in pneumonia and typhoid in large hospitals--Sir B. W. Richardson's report of practice 247 CHAPTER XI. REASONS WHY ALCOHOL IS DANGEROUS AS MEDICINE. Researches of Abbott--Vital Resistance lowered by alcohol--Experiments upon Urinary Toxicity--Effect of alcohol upon the guardian-cells of the body--Dr. Sims Woodhead on immunity--Delearde's experiments at the Pasteur Institute--Dr. A. Pearce Gould on alcohol and cancer--Delirium in illness caused by alcohol 262 CHAPTER XII. WHY DOCTORS STILL PRESCRIBE ALCOHOLICS. Public often demand it--Lack of knowledge of true nature of alcohol--Alcohol given undeserved credit for recoveries--Use of alcohol results from custom--Education of the people in teachings of non-alcoholic physicians necessary--Prescription of alcohol a matter of routine--Two examples 291 CHAPTER XIII. ALCOHOLIC PROPRIETARY OR "PATENT" MEDICINES.