Excerpt from Voice Use and Stimulants The reception of that lecture incontestably assured me that my belief in the want of accurate knowledge and guidance on this mat ter was well found The fact that even those few critics who disagree with my conclusions quote certain traditions regarding beverages. Considered indispensable to vocalists, is as much an acknowledgment of this requirement as is the more general agreement of the major ity with my views. It is of course easy to minimize the import ance of the subject, but I can only say that I should not have entered into it if a matured experience had not convinced me that the career, and not seldom the life of a large num ber of professional voice users is cut short prematurely by unwise, though not always excessive indulgence in alcohol. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.