At the request of some of the prominent friends of the Temperance cause, the following paper was prepared with the intention of submitting it, or an abstract of it, to the National Temperance Convention held at Saratoga Springs, August 1, 1865. It was intended to cover the whole ground of the scientific argument concerning Alcoholic Medication, and to meet certain criticisms and objections advanced by the London Temperance Spectator and other European authors and publications with regard to the doctrines presented in "The True Temperance Platform," and to elucidate more plainly the premises on which those doctrines are based, for the special benefit of those readers who have not time or disposition to study the subject in the light of first principles. But as Dr. CHARLES JEWETT had been officially invited to prepare a paper on "The Medical Question," the discussion on the employment of alcohol as a medicine came up on the presentation of his paper; hence the paper the author had prepared was not introduced; nor was his challenge to controvert the positions assumed by Dr. Jewett, and his offer to disprove those advocated by Professor A. B. Palmer, M. D. of Michigan (who represented the medical profession in the Convention), accepted by either of those gentlemen. The author has, therefore, yielded to the suggestions of many who were present, and who with him regretted that a fair and full discussion of the whole subject could not then and there be had, to allow the manuscript to be printed in pamphlet form, and circulated as another and a needed "permanent Temperance document" - R. T. Trall