Effects of Alcohol.

N. Z. Alliance Leaflets, Second Series. No. 2.]

"Diseases arising from drinking spirituous or fermented liquors are liable a become hereditary."—Dr. Erasmus Darwin.

"I have been brought to the conviction, from the very large experience of [unclear: the] father and grand father, which has extended over a century, that no cause has [unclear: and] to so much suffering and inherited ill-health as the consumption of alcohol."—[unclear: Sarles] Darwin.

"I hardly know any more potent cause of disease than alcohol."—Sir W. [unclear: ill], F.R.S., Physician to the Queen.

"If there were no alcoholic drinking, very many of the congestions and [unclear: dam] inations of modern days would be unknown."—Dr. Rutherford.

"As I looked at the hospital wards to-day, and saw that seven out of ten [unclear: red] their disease to alcohol, I could but lament that the teaching about the [unclear: prestion] was not more direct, more decisive, more home-thrusting, than even it [unclear: had] been."—Sir A. Clarke, M.D., F.R.C.P., Physician in Ordinary to the Queen.

"I never suffer ardent spirits in my house, thinking them evil spirits."—Sir [unclear: stley] Cooper.

"Ardent spirits dispose to every form of acute disease."—Dr. Benj. Rush.

"The effect of drinking spirits is to convert the blood in the arteries into the [unclear: used] of the veins; in other words, it is to change the bright-looking, vermillion-[unclear: boured], nutritious blood into blood which is black in its colour, without the [unclear: never] to nourish, and poisonous in its effects."—Dr. Benj. Brodie.

"Alcohol is a poison, and health cannot be benefited by it to any degree-[unclear: an] bear it sometimes, but it is benefited by it never. It is injured by the [unclear: all] lest dose."—Sir Andrew Clark, M.D., F.R.C.P.

"I have no hesitation in attributing a very large proportion of some of the [unclear: but] painful maladies which come under my notice, as well as those which every [unclear: medical] man has to treat, to the ordinary and daily use of fermented drink, taken [unclear: in] the quantity which is conveniently deemed moderate."—Sir H. Thompson, [unclear: F. R. S.]

"Alcoholic drinks are injurious if habitually taken for daily use."—Alfred [unclear: repenter], M.D.

"Every organ in the body is supplied with deficient nourishment, every tissue [unclear: let er] iorated by the constant and regular use of alcohol, even in quantities far [unclear: at] of drunkenness."—Norman S. Kerr, M.D., F.L.S.

"lt is perfectly certain that there are multitudes at this moment who are [unclear: during] their constitutions, and shortening their lives, by taking alcohol daily, in [unclear: amount] which they consider strictly moderate."—J. J. Ridge, M.D.