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ment. This review has contained a summary of 

 important foreign news culled from the press of 

 aliens, allies, and neutrals, and its medical supple- 

 ment has done the same for medical science. A 

 similar publication dealing with animal and plant 

 physiology has been set on foot by the Physiological 

 Society, and is another direct outcome of the war 

 stimulus. One trusts that the Government will 

 continue to support the publication of the medical 

 supplement and extend its usefulness in the time 

 of peace. Such publications are expensive and can 

 never hope to pay their way if they depend on 

 private enterprise alone. 



Another important committee, under the presi- 

 dency of Lord D'Abernon, has dealt with the ques- 

 tion of alcohol. The majority of its members were 

 physiologists, and its decisions were the result of 

 scientific research. I remember when I was younger 

 the cant phrase, " You cannot make people sober 

 by Acts of Parliament." This seemed such a con- 

 clusive argument that for years and years nothing 

 was attempted in the way of reform. We have 

 seen now what can be done by an act of D.O.R.A., 

 and let us trust that, even if Lord D'Abernon's 

 Committee is no longer an entity, its effects will 

 continue, and that if fresh needs and problems 

 arise the Committee will be reconstituted with 

 enlarged powers. In this connection all will watch 

 with interest that great experiment on the other 



