Alcohol is a poison, and we should discontinue its use at once, as it can be done with safety and perfect impunity, except in rare cases." To secure all the benefits to be derived from medical treatment, "we should have," says Dr.Dodge, "institutions for the reception of inebriates, where total abstinence can be rigidly, but judiciously enforced for a sufficient length of time, to test the curative powers of absolute restraint from all intoxicating drinks.

When the craving for stimulants is irresistible, it is useless to make an attempt to reclaim and cure the drunkard, _unless the detention is compulsory_, and there is complete restraint from all spirituous or alcoholic stimulants." REMOVAL FROM TEMPTATION.
In regard to the compulsory power that should inhere in asylums for the cure of drunkenness, there is little difference of opinion among those who have had experience in their management.

They have more faith in time than in medicine, and think it as much the duty of the State to establish asylums for the treatment of drunkenness as for the treatment of insanity.

"The length of time necessary to cure inebriation," says Dr.Dodge, "is a very important consideration.

A habit covering five, ten, fifteen or twenty years, cannot be expected to be permanently eradicated in a week or a month.