An Essay, Medical, Philosophical, and Chemical, on Drunkenness, and Its Effects on the Human Body (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Bqankind, ever in purfuit Of pleafure, have reluc'tantly admitted into the catalogue of their difeafes, thofe evils which were the Immediate offspring of their luxuries: Such a referve 18 Indeed natural to the human mind: forof all: de'viations'from the paths of duty; there are none that ifo forcibly impeach their pretenfions to the charaéter of rational beings as the Inordinate ufe of prituous 11 quors. Hence, in the writings of medicine, we find drunkennefs only curforily mentioned among the powers that injure health, while the mode of aé'tion is entirely neglec'ted and left unexplained. This is the more to be wondered at, as the Rate of ebriety itfelf Iex.

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