Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Commissioners point out that a man might more properly be said to eat beer than to eat certain kinds of soup, or indeed watermelon. Their report will enable members of the medical profession and the public to understand clearly what constitutes good beer, and where and how they may obtain it. Beer- drinkers, the numbers of whom we hope will increase considerably as the result of the researches of our Commissioners, are now in a position to protect themselves from bad beers, and we hold the view that it would be infinitely better for the well-being of the people of these islands as a whole if they were to select beer as their habitual drink, rather than wines or spirits. Climatic conditions have a good deal to do with the dietetic value of substances used for allaying thirst. Our Commissioners properly drive home that, when a man drinks beer or stout habitually, he is not only drinking but eating, a fact which has not been sufficiently recognized in recent years. These beverages contain all the elements of a typical diet, with the exception of fat, and in a proportion approximately physiological." - Beer Versus Tea. Dr. Henry Davy, president of the British Medical Association, speaking at a conference of the National Temperance League, on August 15, 1907, said he had some hesitation in attending the gathering, not that he had not the greatest sympathy with the temperance movement, but because most temperance societies and a large number of temperance advocates talked the most unscientific twaddle that was ever invented. He agreed that they should teach children in the schools that alcohol was not necessary for ordinary physical life, but to go on and tell them, as in some American schools, that they were morally wrong in drinking a glass of wine, and to do so was taking poiso...