amount sufficient to supply an appreciable proportion of the energy of the body. This, it appears, was not considered as demonstrated. This would probably be the verdict of any body of scientific physiologists dis¬ cussing the subject from an unprejudiced point of view. Some curves exhibited by Sir Victor Horsley at this meeting showed a marked decrease in the use of alcohol in English hospitals since 1872, and in more recent years also in the special treatment of fevers and seem to indicate,

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... far as they go, a changing medical view of the medicinal value of this agent.