IN New York City recently three women died and two more were made dangerously ill from drinking home-made wine at a wedding feast. The wine was made by the bridegroom himself, and the two hundred guests partook of it. The recipe was sugar, water, alcohol, and red and green coloring matter. At first it was thought that the victims were suffering of ptomain poison, but critical examination discovered the fact that wood-alcohol had been used in making the wine. The Journal of the American Medical Association uses this incident as an occasion to sound another note of warning against the "criminal ignorance of the general public in the use of wood-alcohol, and its injurious effects, not only on eyesight, but on life itself." The effect of wood-alcohol on the optic nerves is very disastrous, to say nothing about the other evil effects of the drug. In a former warning, the Journal called attention to the fact that oftentimes wood-alcohol is used in concoctions that are served at soda-fountains; and in view of the dangers, people should be careful to know what they are drinking.