AN EMINENT AUTHORITY ON ALCOHOL.
By Austin Flint
I BELIEVE all alcoholic liquors and beverages of any and every kind containing alcohol, to be inevitably injurious to all persons who are in perfect health and well nourished. The evil effects produced upon the liver, stomach, and kidneys by habitual use of alcoholic beverages are too well known to the medical pathologist to render it necessary to dwell upon them. Alcohol is a good servant in the hands of an intelligent physician, but a bad master for the foolish man who uses it as a beverage. It follows, therefore, as a natural and logical sequence, that alcoholic liquor of any kind, description, or character whatsoever should never be used except when prescribed by an able and conscientious physician in cases where sickness makes it absolutely necessary that it should be given as medicine.—Dr. Austin Flint, Professor of Physiology in the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York, and author of "Flint's Practice of Medicine."