ABSTRACT
Food and Drink are prime necessaries of life, and the struggle to obtain them has been a chief factor in determining the course of human history. The lack of food on a large scale, constituting Famine, has made landmarks in human history. The dependence of scurvy on the lack of fresh food was well known for many years before action was taken to prevent its occurrence on board ship. Alcohol affords a scarcely less striking and an even more important instance of the enforcement of regulations against the most eagerly desired drinks of mankind. These regulations historically have been successful, in so far as they embodied an overwhelming educated public opinion, in reducing the consumption of alcoholic drinks, and in thus paralysing one of the chief enemies of preventive medicine. From the standpoint of health the sophistication of milk is the most important of all adulterations.
