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whether they mutually interact. They further in no way indicate 

 any specific remedy. The broad fact remains, that of the 

 graduates in medicine of the Melbourne University, at or about 

 the years named, about one in seven became social wrecks, the 

 proximate cause of the disaster being, what the total abstainers 

 designate, in the words of Robert Hall, " liquid fire and distilled 

 damnation." 



