The Pure Food Law--The guarantee--Newspaper opposition to the law--Headache remedies--Fake testimonials--Dangers of soothing syrups and morphine cough syrups--Fraud orders issued by Post-Office Department--Internal Revenue Department and Patent Medicines--Proprietary "Foods" strongly alcoholic--Alcoholic Cod-Liver Oil preparations--Australia's Royal Commission on Patent Medicines--Committee on Pharmacy analyses--Malt extracts--Coca Wines--Advertising, the strength of the Nostrum business--An effectual remedy 299 CHAPTER XIV. DRUGGING. Drugs do not cure disease--Nature cures--Opinions of drug medication of prominent physicians--La grippe caused by drug taking--Coal-tar drugs--Quinine--Sir Frederick Treves on disuse of drugs--People demand drugs of physicians--Mothers make drug victims of their children--Habit-producing drugs--Causes of drug-taking--How to be well 335 CHAPTER XV. TESTIMONIES OF PHYSICIANS AGAINST ALCOHOLIC MEDICATION. No need for substitutes for alcohol--Alcohol hides symptoms of disease--Responsibility of physicians--Opinions of many teachers in medical colleges--Hot milk better than alcohol--_Journal of the American Medical Association_ on researches of Abbott and Laitinen--Resolution against alcohol of West Virginia Medical Society--Dr. Knox Bond on Scarlet Fever--Metchnikoff on white blood-cells--Kassowitz describes his treatment of fevers--Sims Woodhead's opinions--Opinions of German Physicians--Dr. Harvey blames medical profession for careless use of alcohol and opium--Use of Alcohol declining rapidly in medical practice 356 CHAPTER XVI. RECENT RESEARCHES UPON ALCOHOL. Experiments of Laitinen--Resistance of blood-cells to disease lowered by alcohol--International Congress on Alcoholism, London, 1909--Alcohol and Immunity--Effect of Alcohol Drinking on Human Off-spring--Researches of Kraepelin and Aschaffenberg--Economic losses by reduced work through beer and wine drinking--Researches of Dr. Reid Hunt--Mice given alcohol killed by small doses of poison--Difference in effect of alcohol and starch foods--Chittenden on food theory of alcohol--Researches of Dr. S. P. Beebe--Liver impaired by alcohol--Dr. Winfield S. Hall's interpretation of the researches of Beebe and Hunt--Oxidation of alcohol by liver a protective action--Researches show that alcohol is a poison, not a food 392 CHAPTER XVII. MISCELLANEOUS.