With every new supply the craving is increased, and the man becomes more and more helpless in the folds of an enslaving appetite.

Is it not true, doctor, that with few exceptions all who have engaged in treating inebriates agree that only in entire abstinence is cure possible ?" "Well, yes; you are probably right there," Dr.Angler returned, with some professional reserve.

"In the most cases isolation and abstinence are no doubt the only remedies, or, to speak more correctly, the only palliatives.

As for cure, I am one of the skeptics.

If you have the diathesis, you have the danger of exposure always, as in consumption." "An occasion like this," remarked the other, "is to one with a dypso-maniac diathesis like a draft of cold, damp air on the exposed chest of a delicate girl who has the seeds of consumption in her lungs.
Is it not so, doctor ?" "Yes, yes." "There are over three hundred persons here to-night." "Not less." "In so large a company, taking society as we have it to-day, is it likely that we have none here with a hereditary or acquired love of drink ?" "Scarcely possible," replied Dr.Angier.
"How large do you think the percentage ?" "I have no means of knowing; but if we are to judge by the large army of drunkards in the land, it must be fearfully great." "Then we cannot invite to our houses fifty or a hundred guests, and give them as much wine and spirits as they care to drink, without seriously hurting some of them.