Show WHISKY Y 2 FOR FOOD dr mx A AND 1 1 pl Dr Henry gibbons in tile the san franci cuseo press says that doity years ago the use of aco alcoholic bolic dunks was almost universal univ eisal both as a prophylactic and a rem remedy edy when the public mind in america was directed to the physical and nid mo ral evils resulting in aiom their use a revulsion took 0 place and physicians generally concurred in abolish abolishing im C them in health and employing them sparingly in sickness within tile the last fifteen years the tide is reversed and alcohol again reigns in therapeutics to england is mainly due this tin s counter revolution certain 0 london doctors doc tois finding the atmosphere of that city too much de dea Z ed and vitiated for their lungs recognized in ill their wonted brandy an admirable substitute for respiratory oxygen it was soon discovered that alcohol was digested and converted into flesh and blood and that it has no equal in restoring t the waste of the system and arow ii ow that the lancet is is abolished and tho the general character 0 of f disease maintained maintain bol I 1 alcohol 1 steps aloft into its ancient niche and is again the it water of life now new york hastens to imitate london and a lid the doctors of gotham inaugurate the reign of whisky which is now pretty well established a gain again il in i and out of the profession even clergymen here in california go about recommending whisky arid cream V P verily if whisky has the virtue ascribed to it by tile the therapeutics of 1864 we have bave no need of the panacea of I 1 but we fear that the patronage given ibby the faculty will distro destroy twenty lives where the medicine medi cilie saves one |