Alcohol ay a beverage in the tropics is POISON. Used externally it is splendid, People who drink in the Orient:
are greatly endangered."
Alcohol is the bane of the foreign.
Vasiness man in the Orient Alcohol is the curse of the East.
I have tended more than 12 foreigners with delirium tre:
mens, paralysis, ete., as a result of alcohol."
"The use of alcohol in the East is followed by company which brings other vices.'
"Phere would be much less in the way of illness and breakdown.
in the East if alcohol was ban.
ed except rarely 'On purely medical grounds, I oppose alcohol in the Orient—to say nothing of moral reasons.' 'In the London School of Tropical Medicine, it is advised against.' "To leave alcohol alone is taught by tropical disease specialists it:
London.
"The less of alcohol consumed in 'a hot climate the- better, It is medicine, not food."
"The use of alcohol is more harmfal in hot than in temperate or cold climates.
'All the disadvantages of alcoholic indulgences at home seem in-Greased in the Orient, and the advantages, if any, are rendered valueless by the added risk of over-indulgence,'
"The temptations to drink to exess are stronger here than elsewhere, and any drinking of alcohol should be discouraged.' 'A foreigner is far better able to withstand the climate of the Orient without alcohol."
"The use of alcohol would make 'a foreigner more susceptible to diseases prevalent in China." Alcoholic drinks in io way give benefit, but do increase the risk of life here."
Have seen young foreigners star as moderate drinkers—then after a few yangs pass away from some ordinary illness, because their bodily resistance was lowered from drinking.' have lived both: in the interfer and at the coast.and consider it a privilege to help disillusion people that alcohol) is necessary for the maintenance of health in the Orient"
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.