significance to this statement. cently told of an argument ad horninem that was in- Considering what is the common custom and habit of Another London dispatch in the daily papers re- no other attraction than a convenient restatement of what orator they might easily have been passed over as having views represented the general attitude of the profession in The Rule of "Not Too Much." But with them was associated at least a suggestion that such it as a dangerous and poisonous agent. Had these proposi- is not a matter for wonder that a number of clinical teachers presented to the Toronto meeting. Now that the issue is troduced in rather striking fashion by Sir James Crich- 103 tion, in the treatment of disease; and generally to condemn What the Scientific Men Drank at Dinner. medical practitioners on this side of the Atlantic in regard the same authority had said on many previous occasions. this country, and the official position of the speaker lent, joined it is to be hoped that its discussion will be con- result both light and leading. ducted in a fair and scientific fashion, and that from it will tions been presented merely as the personal opinions of the should, even somewhat late in the day, have determined to put on record views which are in direct conflict with those as was evident from the criticisms of the lay press, an added to the use of alcohol, at least in the treatment of disease, it