LIEUT.-COL. W. F. BUTLER.


In reply to your communication, asking for a statement of my
experience as to the effects of tobacco and alcohol upon the mind and
health, I beg to inform you that as I have not been in the habit of
using the first-named article at any period of my life, I am unable to
speak of its effects, mental or otherwise. With regard to alcohol, I
have found that although the brain may receive a temporary accession
to its production of thought, through the use of wine, etc., such
increased action is always followed by a decided weakening of the
thinking power, and that on the whole a far greater amount of
_even_ mental work is to be obtained without the use of alcohol
than with it.

W. F. BUTLER.
Feb. 18, 1882.




DR. LAUDER BURNTON, F. R. S.


I am unable to give you personal experience as to the use of tobacco,
inasmuch as I do not use it in any form. From observation of others it