1870.] 



Presents. 



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use of alcohol in rousing a failing appetite, exciting a feeble heart, and 

 accelerating a languid capillary circulation, we have been strongly im- 

 pressed with the necessity for great moderation and caution. In spite of 

 our previous experience in the use of alcohol and brandy, we were hardly 

 prepared for the ease with which appetite may be destroyed, the heart 

 unduly excited, and the capillary circulation improperly increased. Con- 

 sidering its daily and almost universal use, there is no agent which 

 seems to us to require more caution and more skill to obtain the good and 

 to avoid the evil which its use entails. 



We wish to guard ourselves agaiust the supposition that in speaking of 

 alcohol and brandy we refer at all to wine and beer, which contain sub- 

 stances, in addition to alcohol, which may make their action in nutrition 

 somewhat different. 



Presents received May 12, 1870. 



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