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the brain are more or less paralyzed ; his judgment is 

 weakened ; in short, he has lost self-control. 



Alcohol in the Army. Colonel Alfred A. Woodhull, 

 surgeon United States army, says in regard to this matter, 

 " I do not think any of our medical officers would seriously 

 advocate the issue of alcohol as a measure of health." 



Captain Woodruff, assistant surgeon United States 

 army, says, " Spirits can never be used in the army as a 

 regular issue ; the practice is thoroughly vicious, and was 

 virtually abandoned sixty years ago." 



Dr. Frank H. Hamilton said : " It is earnestly desired 

 that no such experiment ever be repeated in the armies of 

 the United States. In our own mind the conviction is 

 established by the experience and observation of a lifetime, 

 that the regular routine employment of alcoholic stimulants 

 by men in health is never, under any circumstances, use- 

 ful. We make no exceptions in favor of cold, or heat, or 

 tain/ 1 



General Kitchener prohibited all drinks containing alco- 

 hol in the Soudan campaign, and of the result a war cor- 

 respondent said: "Of one thing I am sure that the 

 mortality from fever and other diseases during the Atbara 

 campaign and the final Omdurman campaign would have 

 been infinitely greater than it was if alcoholic liquors had 

 been allowed as a beverage, or even as an occasional 

 ration. 



" The men who grumbled a little when General Kitchener 

 emptied out into the street a cargo of Scotch whisky that had 

 been smuggled into Berber for sale to the troops, soon dis- 

 covered for themselves that the Sirdar was right. Accord- 

 ing to official reports nearly four thousand of the soldiers 

 now in South Africa are total abstainers." 



