It impoverishes the blood, and there is no surer road to that degeneration of muscular fibre so much to be feared; and in heart disease it is more especially hurtful, by quickening the beat, causing capillary congestion and irregular circulation, and thus mechanically inducing dilatation." Sir Henry Thompson, a distinguished surgeon, says: "Don't take your daily wine under any pretext of its doing you good.

Take it frankly as a luxury--one which must be paid for, by some persons very lightly, by some at a high price, _but always to be paid for_.

And, mostly, some loss of health, or of mental power, or of calmness of temper, or of judgment, is the price." Dr.Charles Jewett says: "The late Prof.Parks, of England, in his great work on Hygiene, has effectually disposed of the notion, long and very generally entertained, that alcohol is a valuable prophylactic where a bad climate, bad water and other conditions unfavorable to health, exist; and an unfortunate experiment with the article, in the Union army, on the banks of the Chickahominy, in the year 1863, proved conclusively that, instead of guarding the human constitution against the influence of agencies hostile to health, its use gives to them additional force.

The medical history of the British army in India teaches the same lesson." But why present farther testimony?
Is not the evidence complete?
To the man who values good health; who would not lay the foundation for disease and suffering in his later years, we need not offer a single additional argument in favor of entire abstinence from alcoholic drinks.

He will eschew them as poisons..