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Rh of Paris. Food was scarce in the French army, and wine was liberally supplied. The men complained bitterly of the extreme chilliness which affected them. Dr. Klein, a French staff surgeon, was reported in the Medical Temperance Journal of England, October, 1873, as saying of this:—

There is no evidence against alcohol stronger than that which shows it to be not heat-producing, as commonly believed, but a reducer of heat in the body. Indeed, this question of bodily temperature is used in recent times to decide whether a man who has fallen upon the street is troubled by apoplexy, or influenced by alcoholism. If the clinical thermometor shows the temperature to be above normal, it is apoplexy; if below normal, it is alcoholism.

Yet because it creates a glow of warmth in the skin immediately after drinking it, thousands of