Year: 1874

One Of the latest contributions 10 the
literature of the alcohol question is an essay
by DR.. Sutherland, a London expert in ner-
vous disorders, who, regarding wine as "a
good friend, but bad enemy" and recOg-
nizing, moreover, the impracticabilIty of
total abstinence in a social system which
includes dinner parties, evening entertain
ments with supper, ETC., lays down for the
guidance of ''thOse who suspect they are
taking habitually larger allowance of al
cohol than is compatible with health" the
following rules:


"AlcOhOlic stimulants should never be
taken in the morning before lunch. If one
be obliged to do so habitually, it is certain
that alcohol is gradually getting hold on
the individual, which he will not easily
throw off, If, in exceptional cases, a person
be called upon to undergo unusual fatigue
in the morning, and feel the necessity for a
stimulant, a glass of beer may be taken.
No one in good health should ever
take wine or spirits i'm the morning.


=" If any one fear that he is taking too
much alcohol, the easiest way to limit the
quantity is TO drink the same allowance of
the same wine every day. This, for various
reasons, should be brown sherry, and should
be taken as follows Either TWO glasses
after lunch, the same after dinner, and one
with biscuit in the afternoon. During
lunch and dinner, water must be drunk,
and wine taken only at the end of the meal.


'No healthy man should ever take more
than four glasses of wine daily as his usual
allowance, and should reduce this to three
if possible. Those who are accustomed to
wine should not take less than this every
day.


" Those who wish to become teetOtalers
should leave of alcohol very gradually, and
the period during which this reformation is
brought about should extend over net less
than two years.


'No healthy man should ever touch spirits,
whether raw or diluted, except under spe-
cially exceptional circumstances-as, for
instance, after great exposure to wet or
cold. Liqueurs at dinner are also to be
avoided.


"ROughly speaking, one tumblerful Of
beer contains about the same amount Of
alcohol as one wineglassful of wine or half
a wineglaSsful Of brandy.


"Ladies who are in good health should
take one glass Of sherry or claret at lunch;
one and a halt ordinarily at dinner, one
glass of champagne and one of elaret al din
nerp9Tties; and two glasses Of champagne
with seltzer water at balls.


"Iadies in delicate health, who are 60
ing to ride in the park, if they have break
tasted early and do not lunch until late
NAV take a glass Of dry sherry and a bis
cult before starting for their ride.


sMen, at dinner, may take glass OF
sherry with their soup, if they have not
had one in the afternoon, no hOcs; glass
and half Of champagne and one of sherry
or claret after dinner. If they will keep
to this they NAV dine out as often as they
like and il will not hurt them


"At public dinners the same rule should
be observed; but, as there are occasions ON
which it is almost impossible to avoid
drinking much. il is then recommended
that they should either have a tumbleTful
of water by their side and drink a mouth
fal of it after every sip Of wine, or that
they should drink champagne and eltZer
water, half and half, all through dinner.


~At balls, the safest drink as refresh
ment Is laret-cup. Bad claTet is the least
offensive bad wine. A biscuit should be
taken with il. II is astonishing what re-
parative powers there are in biscuit.


"At supper, under a ] circumstances,
champagne should be dilued with seltZer
water. Ifthe champagne be questionable,
claret-cup shOuld be taken, or beer, if it
can be got.


"Wine should never be taken undiluted,
especially on an empty stomach, when one
is hot and dustys This rule especially ap-
plies to travelling.


'If these rules have been neglected, and
a severe bilious headache be the result,
Dothin0 short of an emetic. which NAV con-
sist' Of a tablespoonful Of mustard in
tumbIer of hot water, will be effectual.


'If person suspect that he has taken
bad wine, and fear the result, it is a good
plan to lake about thirty grains of carbonate
of soda, on the same night, before going to
bed.


''The best kind of supper to have at home
is biscuit and glass of water"