We hear a great deal about the prevention of tuberculosis, and much is done to prevent it. I think we hear much more about the evil effects of syphilis than of alcohol, but, in my experience, I would place alcohol at the top of the list as being the most damaging both to the individual himself and to his offspring. We have heard a great deal about the effect on the offspring. In my clinic at the Free Dispensary I have many epileptic children, and I should say in sixty per cent of the cases one parent is an alcoholic. An address of Dr. Rogers, of Faribault, with reference to the ill effects of one intoxication, when a conception occurs during that time, put the subject of drinking before me in a new light. Much interesting experimentation has within recent years been done with rabbits and guinea-pigs to show the harmful effect of a single dose of alcohol given to either the male or female parent before conception, on the after-coming litter. Not long ago I read an article by some man in New York in which he stated he had traced seven cases of epilepsy to the evil results of a single intoxication in seven different parents. That was something rather new to me, as I thought, in order to get the bad effects, on the descendants, of alcohol, it was necessary to be a chronic alcoholic, and I believe very few of the laity understand that, if conception happens to occur during one drunk, the parent being otherwise a temperate person, the ill effects may be visited on the offspring to as great an extent as if the parent were a chronic inebriate. These are some of the things which would do good if given publicity. In regard to the treatment: I can fully agree with Dr. Freeman in everything he has said. There is certainly no specific when you come to consider the nature of the trouble. The treatment must be carried along the same general lines of physical and moral upbuilding as those we seek to follow in functional nervous disease. Dr. W. A. Jones (Minneapolis): I wonder how many members of the State Association have visited the hospital for inebriates at Willmar. I would like to ask all those who have, to hold up their hands. Five or six of this audience, representing the twelve hundred doctors belonging to this Association. That gives one a fair estimate of those familiar with the State farm for inebriates. I should like to know further how many members of the legislature have visited this institution, and how many have tried to condemn it or perhaps to take it for a tuberculosis hospital. That is what they will do unless we physicians stand by Dr. Freeman and the institution.