APPENDIX.
Reading edition
DR. RISDON BENNETT.
"There are few people, I believe, who are aided in the actual performance of brain-work by alcohol; not that many, nay, most persons, are not rendered more ready and brilliant in conversation, or have their imagination quickened for a time. But the steady, continued exercise of the mental powers demanded of professional men is more often impeded than aided at the time by alcohol."
Contemporary Review, vol. 34, p. 343.