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WINE AND ALCOHOL
FRENCH DOCTOR’S PRONOUNCEMENT
To the Editor.
Sir— On my return from a holiday on the Murray I find on my office table a number of prohibitionists’ letters dealing with the question of “Wine and Alcohol”. If the Rev. W. G. Clarke knew his subject, he would know that his quotations are in favour of wine. What the French call “alcoholiques” is best explained by Dr. L. Landouzy, Sen., member of the Faculty of Medicine, Paris, who said, “I refuse to range myself on the side of teetotallers, who, under the pretext of the abuse made of alcohol, unite in their uncompromising anathema to the alcoholism contained in wine. I refuse as a physiologist, a doctor, and dietist, to permit the proscription of this marvellous wealth of the soil of France—the wine.”
H. L. PENFOLD HYLA
