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Alcoholic beverages

Images

  • Three people drinking punch as a cure for (right to left) gout, colic, and phthisis. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1799.
  • A poor London street strewn with hopeless drunkards and lined with gin shops and a flourishing pawnbroker. Engraving, c. 1751, after W. Hogarth.
  • A drunken scene in a gin shop with children being given alcohol. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.
  • Customers drink and smoke in a spirit shop in South Africa. Wood engraving, c. 1877.
  • A Scottish doctor informing a northen farmer of the perils of consulting a southern doctor including recommending red wine rather than whiskey. Wood engraving by C. Keene, 1885.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    That's the limit : a guide to sensible drinking / [Health promotion Authority for Wales in association with the Health Education Authority].

    | Date: [1991]
    • Books
    • Online

    Institutes of health : essays on constitutional peculiarities, sudden impressions, bathing, animal food, London porter and ale, digestion, dropsy and liver complaints / by John Roberton.

    Roberton, John, 1776-1820/21. | Date: 1817
    • Books

    Do your children know more about drugs than you.

    FRANK (Campaign) | Date: [2006], ©2006
    • Books

    Drink in 1914-1922 : a lesson in control / by Arthur Shadwell.

    Shadwell, Arthur, 1854-1936. | Date: 1923
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Doctors reduced to drinking in a seedy public house: representing the effect of the various Reform bills introduced by Sir James Graham. Wood engraving after J. Leech.

    Leech, John, 1817-1864. | Reference: 15640i
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