Show the medical profession many consumers of and the laity have been accustomed nervous stimulants cus tomed for so BO many years to the abuse jf f alcohol as a ner nervous vols stimulant that some i by H A hare M D la in the therapeutic gazette per persons sons have become hardened t to 0 the miseries which it t induces while others have hae been stimulated to its excessive condemnation As a result of this and the general desire for stimulating foods and drugs 1 I rugs a very large number of persons have been led to place before the public other powerful nervous stimulants of which both the medical profession and the laity know less than they know of alcohol until at the present time there are almost as many consumers of nervous stimulants ather than alcohol as there are of those who use alcohol alco liol to excess further than this the number of these substitutes is daily increasing and in many instances unprincipled venders benders are fortifying comparatively innocent and mild nervous stimulants dispensed for common use with 0 o large a quantity of alcohol added that the patient really become addicted to the alcohol habit babit whilo while thin thinking cing g he is simply using an innocuous drug he thinks he is taking coca kola or some similar stimulant when in reality most of the temporary changes for the better which lie he notices after a dose of his favorite tipple are due to the alcohol which it contains |