The principal active agent in all of these remedies was {93} found to be alcohol. In most of them it exists in a proportion about equal to that in which it is supposed to occur in ordinary whiskey. Some of them are even stronger in alcoholic contents than the whiskey usually sold in our large cities. This matter has seemed so important that we give the official figures of the Board of Health. TABLE From the Report of the Massachusetts Board of Health _Tonics and Bitters_ The following were examined for the purpose of ascertaining the percentage of alcohol in each. Some of them have been recommended as temperance drinks! Per cent, of Alcohol (by volume). "Best" Tonic 7.6 Carter's Physical Extract 22.0 Hooker's Wigwam Tonic 20.7 Hoofland's German Tonic 29.3 Hop Tonic 7.0 Howe's Arabian Tonic, "not a rum drink" 13.2 Jackson's Golden Seal Tonic 19.6 Liebig Company's Coca Beef Tonic 23.2 Mensman's Peptonized Beef Tonic 16.5 Parker's Tonic, "purely vegetable," "recommended for inebriates" 41.6 Schenck's Sea Weed Tonic, "entirely harmless" 19.5 Atwood's Quinine Tonic Bitters 29.2 L. T. Atwood's Jaundice Bitters 22.3 Moses Atwood's Jaundice Bitters 17. 1 Baxter's Mandrake Bitters 16.5 Boker's Stomach Bitters 42.6 Brown's Iron Bitters 19.7 Burdock Blood Bitters 25.2 Carter's Scotch Bitters 17.6 Colton's Bitters 27.1 Copp's White Mountain Bitters, "not an alcoholic beverage" 6.0 Drake's Plantation Bitters 33.2 Flint's Quaker Bitters 21.4 Goodhue's Bitters 16.1 Greene's Nervura 17.2 {94} Hartshorn's Bitters 22.2 Hoofland's German Bitters, "entirely vegetable and free from alcoholic stimulant" 25.6 Hop Bitters 12.0 Hostetter's Stomach Bitters 44.3 Kaufmann's Sulphur Bitters, "contains no alcohol." As a matter of fact, it contains 20.5 per cent, of alcohol and no sulphur 20.5 Kingsley's Iron Tonic 14.9 Langley's Bitters 18.1 Liverpool's Mexican Tonic Bitters 22.4 Paine's Celery Compound 21.0 Pierce's Indian Restorative Bitters 6.1 Puritana 22.0 Porter's Stomach Bitters 27.9 Pulmonine 16.0 Rush's Bitters 35.0 Richardson's Concentrated Sherry Wine Bitters 47.5 Secor's Cinchona Bitters 13.1 Shonyo's German Bitters 21.5 Job Sweet's Strengthening Bitters 29.0 Thurston's Old Continental Bitters 11.4 Walker's Vinegar Bitters, "contains no spirit" 6.1 Warner's Safe Tonic Bitters 35.7 Warren's Bilious Bitters 21.5 Wheeler's Tonic Sherry Wine Bitters 18.8 Wheat Bitters 13.6 Faith Whitcomb's Nerve Bitters 20.3 Dr. Williams' Vegetable Jaundice Bitters 18.5 Whiskol, "a non-intoxicating stimulant, whiskey without its sting" 28.2 Colden's Liquid Beef Tonic, "recommended for treatment of the alcoholic habit" 26.5