Chapter Iii Deals With “the Peace and War Footing of Alcohol,” and

is a reprint from the Medical Record, Aug. 7, 1915. It, too, sings the praises of the “lighter beverages,” while deprecating the use of “ardent spirits.” For instance:

An overwhelmingly large proportion of persons who develop alcoholic psychoses in America are drinkers of whisky, or some corresponding ardent spirit, whereas this condition is seldom seen in beer and wine drinkers. [Italics ours.--Ed.]

Thus we find the highest percentage of alcohol psychoses among the whisky drinkers who come from western Europe, while the wine and beer drinking races of central and southern Europe show a distinctly lower percentage, in some instances only about one-fourth as many per thousand. [Italics ours.--Ed.]