Fatigue and Alcohol.*

IT is unnecessary for me to speak to-day of the general aspects of alcoholism, since I am addressing an audience fully alive to its importance.Indeed, when your secretary's invitation to read this paper reached me I felt much hesitation in accepting it, since it appeared presumptuous for me to speak to those who in many respects are experts.But on consideration it seemed that those who are making a study of the effects of alcohol are justified in expecting to receive help from all possible sources, and therefore I consented to contribute my mite.It must be understood, however, that my investigations on fatigue were commenced as a scientific study, that the scope was enlarged only when their economic and national importance in connection with the war was recognized, and that no special attention was directed at first to the r61e of alcohol.