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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 15, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 27.

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Alcohol and Digestion

The New York Voice of June 24 has a four-column article of an interview with Dr. J. H. Kellogg on the effect of alcohol on the stomach and digestion. The doctor sets it down as of no value as an aid to digestion, but that it is in the highest degree detrimental. The doctor bases his opinions on actual experiments of 2,000 living persons; and the Voice rightly sets his demonstrations over against the opinions of Professors Chittenden and Mendel, of Yale, whose basis was experiments in purely artificial digestion, confined wholly to the chemical phase of the matter. Alcohol inside a man has very different effect from alcohol outside. Dr. Kellogg's demonstrations are illustrated by diagrams.