Excerpt from Alcoholic Inebriety: From a Medical Standpoint; With Cases From Clinical Records From the Ordinary and popular outlook, inebriety corrupts a wide range Of both public and private morals, and is so interwoven with the affairs of life, both domestic and civil, that it is looked upon as the chief factor of crime, Of insanity and many other diseases, and as a general disturber of all that should be cherished as valuable in the life of individuals and of the community. Efforts have been put forth to arrest its ...
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Excerpt from Alcoholic Inebriety: From a Medical Standpoint; With Cases From Clinical Records From the Ordinary and popular outlook, inebriety corrupts a wide range Of both public and private morals, and is so interwoven with the affairs of life, both domestic and civil, that it is looked upon as the chief factor of crime, Of insanity and many other diseases, and as a general disturber of all that should be cherished as valuable in the life of individuals and of the community. Efforts have been put forth to arrest its progress, if not to apply a radical remedy for its evils, to which the pulpit, the press, the platform and the ballot, have all contributed a share of in uence, till the land is covered with organizations having for their standard the doctrine of abstinence and prohibition. Taking half a century ago as a starting point, the growth Of the temperance sentiment of the country has been marvelous, and to day, simply as a sentiment, it holds a prominent and commanding position; and yet we are confronted with the discouraging state ment, that dram-drinking and drunkenness are on the increase. From another outlook, not so popular, because not so familiar, another view may be had, which, though more limited in its scope, is none the less important, because it reveals the causal beginnings from which ow the results that are recognized as intoxication. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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