as I have insisted in these columns, the nutritive value of alcohol is the least of its claims. Its condimental recognition as a proper constituent of beverages, we the security of which is being continually fortified as science opens up more the obscure domain of the sus- Physicians Concerning Alcohol. While discussing what is partly connected with the doubt alcohol is a food, it is an expensive food. This Moreover, we have here an additional point to ap- feeding these are the considerations which lend to a healthy condition insuring the highest physical and meal, promote the social functions of food, animate should be obliged to admit that it did not compare with is doubtless true, and if the nutritive value of alcohol were its only, or even its most important claim to tenance of the human system and its maintenance in preciate the statement of physiologists that while no The Truth About the Recent Statement of British True Value of Alcoholic Beverages. the psychical forces which are of dominant importance value, the fact that the beverages into which it enters are relished, that they heighten the enjoyment of the Hie Rule of "Not Too Much." mental efficiency and happiness. alcoholic beverages their permanent and solid standing, other foods from the point of view of economy. But, in the act of eating while lacking in the act of mere