“A foe more dreadful or deadly than the Russian or the
plague.”--_Florence Nightingale, from the “Crimea.”_
“Most diseases have their rise in intemperance.”--_Lord Bacon._
“An active and powerful cause of disease.”--_Prof. Youmans._
“The evils of alcohol are wide-spread and countless.”--_C. R. Agnew, M.
D._
“Sooner or later proves injurious to the human constitution without any
exception.”--_Sir B. Brodie, Sir James Clark, Sir J. Eyre, Dr. Marshall
Hall, Dr. A. T. Thompson, Dr. A. Ure, the Queen’s Physicians, and
seventy-eight leaders in Medicine and Surgery, of England, 1839._
“Alcohol is neither a food nor a drink suitable for his [man’s] natural
demands.”--_B. W. Richardson, M. A., M. D., F. R. S._
“If alcohol were unknown, half the sin and a large part of the poverty
and unhappiness would disappear from the world.”--_Edmond W. Parkes, M.
D., F. R. S._
“The curse of an army is intoxicating liquors.”--_Parkes._
“Injurious to health, destructive to life.”--_Kant._
“Has inflicted greater calamities than war, pestilence, and
famine.”--_Gladstone._