A hundred deaths from this cause, occurring under the most painful and revolting circumstances, fail to impress him with a sense of his own danger.

His understanding will be clear as to the cases before him, and he will even condemn the self-destructive acts which he sees in others, but will pass, as it were, over the very bodies of these victims, without a thought of warning or a sense of fear, in order to gratify his own ungovernable propensity.

Such is the power of this terrible malady." "Has the profession found a remedy ?" "No; the profession is almost wholly at fault in its treatment.

There are specialists connected with insane and reformatory institutions who have given much attention to the subject, but as yet we have no recorded line of treatment that guarantees a cure." "Except," said one of his listeners, "the remedy of entire abstinence from drinks in which alcohol is present." The doctor gave a shrug: "You do not cure a thirsty man by withholding water." His mind was a little clouded by the wine he had taken.
"The thirsty man's desire for water is healthy; and if you withhold it, you create a disease that will destroy him," was answered.

"Not so the craving for alcohol.