The bases of the temperance reform: an exposition and appeal./ With replies to numerous objections. By Rev. Dawson Burns.

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ligion-it is a preparation for it, and aids it in numberless
ways, which must be obvious to every reflecting mind."
Rev 7. Z. fames: "I do most earnestly entreat you to
abstain from all intoxicating liquors. You do not need
them for health, and to take them for gratification is the
germ of inebriety,
F.
THE FRENCH EXPERIMENT IN ALCOHOL.
MUCH interest in scientific circles was caused in the
autumn of i86o by the appearance of a French work, entitled Dme Rh4e de l'A,4cool et des A4testheniques danis l'Orgaizisme, Recherches Exyheriientales (Experimental Researches
concerning the Procedure of Alcohol and of Anesthetic
Agents in the Animal System). This work, to which the
prize of the French Medical Academy was awarded, was
composed by Drs. Ludger Lallemand and Maurice Perrin,
and detailed numerous carefully made experiments by
those gentlemen, assisted by M. Duroy, a distinguished
chemist.
The WestmiinsteriReview, which, in July, I855, had published an article entitled "The Physiological Errors of
Teetotalism," from the pen of Mr. G. H. Lewes, gave, in
the number for January, I86r, an article on "Alcohol:
What becomes of it in the living body," written by Dr.
W. B. Carpenter, in which a retraction of Mr. Lewes's
theorizings was offered, and a careful digest presented of
the methods and results of the French experiments. By
means of the test employed-a solution of bichromate of
potass in sulphuric acid-it was found possible to detect
alcohol in the breath and other emanations of persons
who had taken even small doses of alcohol, which turned
the red liquor to an emerald green, by decomposing the
chromic acid and reducing it to the condition of green
oxide of chromium. The experimentalists justly laid
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