Alcohol in Materia Medica: Remarks on the Question "Is Alcohol an Indispensable Article of the Materia Medica".

The praiseworthy efforts of the patriotic, the moral, and the pious of our country, for the extinction of Drunkenness and its host of evils, have given importance to this question, claiming the serious, deliberate consideration of Practitioners of the healing art, who arc at all times ready to co-operate with their fellow citizens, for the promotion and establish ment of good order, and national happiness: our object, pro fessionally, is the preservation of "a sound mind in a sound body."And in order that the general movement of the phalanx, or rather army, of Temperance, may be harmoniously onward, it is desirable that our views and practices on this subject may coincide, so that we may walk by the same rule, and thus our opinions, when either privately or publicly ad vanced, may tend in some degree to obtund the shaft of sar casm-which has been too little blunted by time:--" Who shall decide when Doctors disagree?"