Dr. Haldor Sneve (St. Paul): I have listened with a great deal of pleasure to Dr. Freeman’s paper, and especially because there are some statistics as to what can be accomplished in such an institution even in a comparatively short time. Personally, I think that six months as an average time to stay in this institution would be too short. It will be found, however, in time, whether this is true, but just now the institution is in the experimental trial stage. A great many legislators are, as Dr. Jones said, trying to convert this institution either into an insane asylum or a tuberculosis sanatorium; and it is up to the profession of the state to back up the establishment of this institution for the treatment of a class which is growing. Personally, I think drink is a vice and not a disease, and until we can eradicate from the minds of the laity and from the minds of some physicians the idea that a man who drinks is some sort of a nervous invalid, the sooner we shall get better results in the handling of this question. Even the dipsomaniac has periodic brain-storms, which Dr. Ball has likened to attacks of migraine; that is a good simile, they do not always take to drink, but go off in other ways. I have treated from twenty to fifty cases of delirium tremens at the City Hospital every year for twenty years, and I have had considerable experience in institutions; and yet I cannot find anything to criticize about the principles of treatment that Dr. Freeman has put forth here today. The idea in the minds of the laity is that inebriety is a disease, and they want drugs for it to make them well, and that is one reason why so many patients go to Keeley cures and get well. They go there because they find a drug that cures _disease_. I find that the Towne-Lambert treatment is an excellent _mental_ treatment for the inebriate in private practice. It can be used in the institution at Willmar, as well as in private practice, and putting a patient upon the Towne-Lambert treatment satisfies his desire to cure the disease he is suffering from.