Note 44 — Chapter XVIII · MORAL INFLUENCE OF PHYSICIANS.

Our profession, to its honor be it spoken, has as a whole, done much for the cause of temperance. “Dr. Rush,” says Dr. Stevens, “paved the way to the great Temperance reform, and that cause, at a later period, had no advocates more powerful than Dr. Sewall of Washington, and Dr. Watts of New York, formerly President of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. Among the living it now reckons Dr. Warren of Boston, and Dr. Muzzy of Cincinnati, and a host of other medical men.” It gives me much pleasure to state in this connection, that at the great entertainment given by the physicians of Massachusetts to the National Convention, at which there were more than six hundred present, ‘the feast of reason and the flow of soul’ were ample and rich without the aid of the intoxicating cup.