"Again and again," says Prof.G.Johnson, "have I seen a patient grow colder, and his pulse diminish in volume and power, after a dose of brandy, and, apparently, as a direct result of the brandy." And Dr.Pidduck, of London, who used common salt in cholera treatment, says: "Of eighty-six cases in the stage of collapse, sixteen only proved fatal, and scarcely one would have died, _if I had been able to prevent them from taking brandy and laudanum_." Dr.Collenette, of Guernsey, says: "For more than thirty years I have abandoned the use of all kinds of alcoholic drinks in my practice, and with such good results, that, were I sick, _nothing_ would induce _me_ to have resource to them--_they are but noxious depressants_." As a non-professional writer, we cannot go beyond the medical testimony which has been educed, and we now leave it with the reader.

We could add many pages to this testimony, but such cumulative evidence would add but little to its force with the reader.

If he is not yet convinced that alcohol has no food value, and that, as a medicine, its range is exceedingly limited, and always of doubtful administration, nothing further that we might be able to cite or say could have any influence with him..