The sun., 1902-01-10
TIE SCHOOL PHYSIOLOGIEs.
Are Their Teachings on the Subject OF
Alcohol SclentIflc and Modern?

To THE ED1ToR or THE sus-Sir: Your
report OF the New York State Science Teach
ers' Association. Dec. 2s. says that Prof
Atwater there stated that "the teaching In
the public schools as to the effect OF alcohol
upon the human system was not In accord
with the latest scientific knowledge. The
kind and amount Of such instruction. he con-
tended. should be determined by educators
rather than temperance reformers
Prof Atwater cited his own experiments
which he claimed were supported by Dr
Rosemann Of Greifswald. Germany. In Pfug-
er's -Archiv for Physiologie" MS the latest
scientific knowledge. with which he said
the school physiologles are not in accord.
But DR.. Rosemann. in the article referred
to, distinctly says that the Atwater expert
ments did not prove that alcohol protected
protein. one OF the grounds on which Prof
Atwater based his claim for food value ot
alcohol and his charge OF error on the school
text books Leading medical authorities In
this country have also said that Prof. At
waters published experiments did not prove
what he claimed they did. (See jour- al ~
The American Medical Ass roidhon," March
81. and July "a. 1900 Boston Medical and
Surgical journal. March and Sept. a. 1000
American Medicine, May and II, 1901. &c
DR.. Rosemann's conclusion is, 1T is gen
orally agreed that alcohol can play no rola
In the nourishment Of healthy men," and to
It's use In sickness he raises serious objec-
tions The school physiologics deal only
with the question Of alcohol in health. Their
teaching Is that alcohol l. not food In the
sense In which people understand the word
food, that Is, as n substance which nourishes
the body without inJuring u.
accuracy against all The accepted physiologis
is not therefore sustained on the point which
be quotes AGAINST them: by his dedqc,ion+ n G,+
been able TO cite in support of these
IN view Of Prof. Atw9ter's evident purpose
Of Of The school physiolosies the public should
know that no school literature Is so well safe
guarded as thi. standard as 70 wi What az these
RSath %%ft Pesss PPesssators who S for these
and p.fs 26fT H Se AdTsoIy board rS OF rs %
Department of the Women's Christ ian Tenn
perance Union. who examine, and indor-s
This committee now consists Of six physi,
clans. four Of whom are teachers IN medlGi
colleges. and three Others INTERESTED IN ean-
subsequent editions are changed accord
The school physioloEies have not been
been chsrgsd but by fscs pu,h9P5s ois.sn, 9s ~
Gl %o1o3 ScG %naeid 2GsDf Ha aHpfihiD Ph Mp ePsis
ETGss,Gt PnTsTsy S d9S sSG z Ghc% aag
r Hewes. NJ d, Instructor in Harvard
University Medical school. Boston These
men have not catered 10 a demand for what
they did no, believe. They studied the qu"I-
tIon and wrote what they found to he truo
They are specialists In physiology and pqthol-
ogy while Prof Atwater Is only a cheui,l
That educators even though capable.
con servative and earnest. will bo safer
guides In ascertaining the exact truth on th.'
sub ject than these specialists is preposterou+
MARY " Hunt.
Worlds and National Superintendent ~
the Depart ment OF Scientific Tcmperance
Instruction of the Women's Christian
Temperance Union.
BosToS, Mass, Jan. a