As a medicine, it is not well fitted for self-prescription by the laity, and the medical profession is not accountable for such administration, or for the enormous evils arising therefrom.
"4.

The purity of alcoholic liquors is, in general, not as well assured as that of articles used for medicine should be.

The various mixtures, when used as medicine, should have definite and known composition, and should not be interchanged promiscuously." The reader will see in this no hesitating or halfway speech.

The declaration is strong and clear, that, as a food, alcohol is not shown, when subjected to the usual method of chemical or physiological investigation, to have any food value; and that, as a medicine, its use is chiefly confined to a cardiac stimulant, and often admits of substitution.
A declaration like this, coming, as it does, from a body of medical men representing the most advanced ideas held by the profession, must have great weight with the people.

But we do not propose resting on this declaration alone.