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256 alcohol as a remedy in acute diseases is not necessary, and that patients have a much better chance for life, other things being equal, where alcohol is not used than where it is.

Dr. Kellogg says of the surgical cases:—

Dr. T. D. Crothers, of Hartford, Conn., tells the following:— "In a large hospital a study of the mortality of pneumonia indicated a greater fatality at intervals of six months. There