APPENDIX.

TESTIMONY OF EMINENT PHYSICIANS

AND SURGEONS.

"AN opinion, handed down from rude and ignorant times, and imbibed by Englishmen from their youth, has become very general, that the habitual use of some portion of alcoholic drink, as of wine, beer, or spirit, is beneficial to health, and even necessary for those subjected to habitual labour.

"Anatomy, physiology, and the experience of all ages and countries, when properly examined, must satisfy every mind well informed in medical science, that the above opinion is altogether erroneous. Man, in ordinary health, like other animals, requires not any such stimulants, and cannot be benefited by the habitual employment of any quantity of them, large or small; nor will their use during his life-time increase the aggregate amount of his labour. In whatever quantity they are employed, they will rather tend to diminish it, "When he is in a state of temporary debility from illness, or other causes, a temporary use of them, as of other stimulant medicines, may be desirable; but as soon as he is raised to his natural standard of health a continuance of their use can do no good to him, even in the most moderate quantities; while larger quantities, (yet such as by many persons are thought moderate,) do sooner or later prove injurious to the human constitution, without any exceptions.

"It is our opinion, that the above statement is substantially correct."

(Signed)

BATTY, EDWARD, Esq., M.R.C.S., Lecturer on Midwifery at the Medical School, Royal Institution, Liverpool.

BAYLIS, C. O. Esq., Surgeon to the South Dispensary, Liverpool.

BEAUMONT, THOMAS, Esq., M.R.C.S., Bradford.

BERRY, SAMUEL, Esq.,M.R.C.S., Surgeon to the Town Infirmary, Birmingham. BIRKBECK, GEORGE, M.D.

BLUNDELL, JAMES, M.D.

BRODIE, SIR BENJAMIN C., Bart., F.R.S., Serjeant-Surgeon to the Queen, Surgeon to St. George's Hospital, &c.

BROOKES, BENJAMIN, Esq., M.R.C.S., Surgeon to the British Lying-in Hospital.

BURROWS, JOHN, Esq., Liverpool.

CHAMBERS, W. F., M.D., F.R.S., Physician to the Queen, and the Queen Dowager, and to St. George's Hospital.

CHAVASSE, THOMAS, Esq., M.R.C.S., St. George's Hospital, Birmingham.

CHOWNE, W. D., M.D., Lecturer on Midwifery, and Physician to Charing Cross Hospital.

CHURTON, JOSEPH, Esq., M.R.C.S., Liverpool.

CLARKE, SIR JAMES, Bart., M.D., F.R.S., Physician to the Queen and the Queen's Household, &c.

CLUTTERBUCK, J. B. Esq.

CONQUEST, J. T., M.D., Physician to the City of London Lying-in Hospital.

COOPER, BRANSBY, Esq., M.R.C.S., F.R.S., Lecturer on Anatomy, and Surgeon to Guy's Hospital.

COOPER, GEORGE L. Esq., M.R.C.S.

DALRYMPLE, J., Esq., M.R.C.S., Lecturer on Surgery at Sydenham College.

DAVIES, THOMAS, M.D., Lecturer on Medicine, and Physician to the London Hospital.

DAVIES, JOHN BIRT, M.D., Liverpool.

DAVIS, DAVID D., M.D., Physician to the Duchess of Kent, and Professor of Obstetric Medicine in University College.

DAVIS,

, Esq.

EYRE, SIR JAMES, M.D.

FERGUSON, ROBERT, M.D., Physician to the Westminster Lying-in Hospital. FOWKE, FREDERICK, Esq., M.R.C.S.

FRAMPTON, ALGERNON, M.D., Physician to the London Hospital.

GILL, WILLIAM, Esq., M.R.C.S., Surgeon to the Northern Hospital, Liverpool.

GODFREY, J. J., Esq., M.R.C.S., Liverpool.

GRANT, KLEIN, M.D., Professor of Therapeutics at the North London School

of Medicine.

GRANVILLE, A. B., M.D., F.R.S., Physician Accoucheur to the Westminster General Dispensary.

GREEN, THOMAS, Esq., M.R.C.S., Surgeon to the Town Infirmary, Birming

ham.

GREAT REX, CHARLES BUTLER, Esq., Liverpool.

HALL, MARSHALL, M.D., F.R.S. L. and E., Lecturer on Medicine at Sydenham College, and Consulting Physician to the Westminster General Dispensary.

HAY, ALEXANDER, Esq., Surgeon to the South Dispensary, Liverpool.

HOPE, I., M.D., F.R.S., Lecturer on Medicine at Aldersgate Street School, and Assistant Physician to St. George's Hospital.

HOWSHIP, JOHN, Esq., M.R.C.S., Surgeon to Charing Cross Hospital.

HUGHES, JOHN, M.D., Liverpool.

JEFFREYS, JULIUS, Esq, M.R.C.S.

JULIUS, G. C., M.D.

JULIUS, G. C., Jun., M.D.

KEY, C. ASTON, Esq., M.R.C.S., Lecturer on Surgery, and Surgeon to Guy's Hospital.

KNIGHT, SIR ARNOLD JAMES, M.D., Sheffield.

LEDSMAN, J. J., Esq., M.R.C.S., Surgeon to the Eye Infirmary, Birmingham.
LEE, ROBERT, M.D., F.R.S., Lecturer on Midwifery at Kinnerton Street
Medical School, and Physician to the British Lying-in Hospital.
LEWIS, WILLIAM, Esq., Manchester.

LONG, DAVID M., Esq., Surgeon to the South Dispensary, Liverpool.
LYNN, W. B. Esq., M.R.C.S., Surgeon to the Westminster Hospital.

MACILWAIN, GEORGE, Esq., M.R.C.S., Surgeon to the Finsbury Dispensary.
MACKENZIE, J. D., M.D., Physician to the Liverpool Infirmary Lock Hospital.
MACRORIE, D., M.D., Physician to the Fever Hospital, Liverpool.
MANIFOLD, -, Esq., M.R.C.S., Liverpool.

MATTERSON, WILLIAM, Esq., M.R.C.S., York.

MATTERSON, WILLIAM, Jun., Esq., M.R.C.S., York.

MAYO, HERBERT, Esq., M.R.C.S., F.R.S., Surgeon to the Middlesex Hospital. MERRIMAN, SAMUEL, M.D., Physician Accoucheur to the Westminster General Dispensary.

MIDDLEMORE, RICHARD, Esq., M.R.C.S., Surgeon to the Eye Infirmary, Birmingham.

MORGAN, JOHN, Esq., M.R.C.S., Lecturer on Surgery, &c., and Surgeon to Guy's Hospital.

MORLEY, GEORGE, Esq., M.R.C.S., Lecturer to the Leeds School of Medicine. NELSON, JOHN BARRITT, A.B., M.B., F.C.P.S., &c., Birmingham.

NIGHTINGALE, ROBERT S., Esq., M.R.C.S., Surgeon to the Eastern Dispensary, Liverpool.

PARKIN, JOHN, Esq., M.R.C.S.

PARTRIDGE, RICHARD, Esq., M.R.C.S., F.R.S., Professor of Anatomy at King's College, and Surgeon to Charing Cross Hospital.

PINCHING, R. L. Esq., M.R.C.S.D.

QUAIN, RICHARD, Esq., M.R,C.S., Professor of Anatomy at the London University, and Surgeon to the North London Hospital.

REID, JAMES, M.D.

ROOTS, H. S., M.D., Physician to St. Thomas's Hospital.

ROUPELL, G. L., M.D., Lecturer on Materia Medica, and Physician to St. Bartholomew's Hospital.

SCOTT, JOHN, M.D.

STANLEY, EDWARD, Esq., M.R.C, S., F.R.S., Professor of Anatomy, and Surgeon to St. Bartholomew's Hospital.

TEALE, T. P., Esq., M.R.C.S., F.L.S., Surgeon to the Leeds General Infir

mary.

TEALE, JOSEPH, Esq., M.R.C.S., Leeds.

THOMSON, ANTHONY DODD, M.D., F.L.S., Lecturer on Materia Medica, and Physician to the London University.

THOMSON, HENRY U., M.D.

TOULMIN, FREDERICK, Esq., Surgeon, Clapton.

TRAVERS, BENJAMIN, Esq., M.R.C.S., F.R.S., Surgeon Extraordinary to the Queen, and Surgeon and Lecturer on Surgery to St. Thomas's Hospital. URE, ANDREW, M.D., F.R.S.

URE, ALEXANDER, M.D., Lecturer on Chemistry at the North London School of Medicine.

VAUX, GEORGE, M.D., Birmingham.

WALKER,

M.D.