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Excerpt from Shall We Drink Wine?: A Physician's Study of the Alcohol Question As to the importance of the alcohol question, there can be only one opinion. How long can we continue to increase the per capita consumption of alcohol at the rate of seventy per cent. Every twenty years before it becomes evident to the slowest of comprehension that something must be done to save civilized races from annihilation? The writer believes, too, that it is the province of the physician more than the moralist, more than the philanthropist, and certainly as much as the statesman, to do what he may for the suppression of alcohol. This essay is, therefore, written certainly as much for the physician as for the intelligent layman. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.