RIDGE, of London Temperance Hospital. "I find very little use for alcohol in the practice of medicine. Where there is one element of good in alcohol there are thousands that are bad."--DR. ALFRED MERCER, Syracuse, N. Y., Professor of Medicine in Syracuse Medical School. "Alcohol is rarely necessary. Other remedies are much more efficacious. In my department of the University of Buffalo I follow Cushny, who claims that alcohol is a poison, a depressant in direct proportion to the amount ingested, and a so-called false food."--DR. DE WITT H. SHERMAN, Adjunct Professor of Therapeutics, University of Buffalo Medical Department. "I believe that alcohol is the greatest foe to the human race to-day. I feel that it would not be a serious harm if its use as a medicine were totally discontinued."--DR. WALTER E. FERNALD, Professor in Tufts Medical School, Boston, Mass. "I rarely or never prescribe alcohol as a medicament or a food, or sanction its use as a beverage. Physiologically I look upon alcohol as a narcotic, with perhaps a primary stimulating effect, but I believe that such desired action as it is capable of producing can be equally well brought about by other agents. As a beverage the use of alcohol, particularly in excess, is attended with definite and well-known dangers."--DR. A. A. ESHNER, Professor of Clinical Medicine, Philadelphia Polyclinic and College for Graduates in Medicine. "I agree with you altogether in your agitation against the use of alcohol in any form. I believe that wine is a mocker, and belief in wine as a benefit, mockery."--DR. MATTHEW WOODS, Philadelphia, Pa. "It is extremely seldom that I ever advise the use of alcohol in any form for my patients."--ELLIOTT P. JOSLIN, M. D., Professor in Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass. "My belief is that there is very little need of the medical use of alcohol. I almost never use it in my practice, and think that its use by practitioners generally is far less than it was a few years ago."--DR. E. G. CUTLER, Professor in Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass. "I believe that the trend of teaching in the Harvard Medical School has been growing less favorable, of late years, to the use of alcohol in the treatment of disease, and in fact it is far less used than it was a generation ago."--DR. JAMES J. PUTNAM, Professor in Harvard Medical School. "My personal opinion in regard to the use of alcoholic drinks is very decidedly averse to such use. I have long been of the opinion that while the use of alcohol may restrain tissue metamorphosis, it cannot legitimately be considered a food."--DR. WILLIAM O. STILLMAN, Albany Medical College, Albany, N. Y.