The much-lamented death of Madam Geneva : the eighteenth-century gin craze / Patrick Dillon.

Reasons humbly offer'd to the Honourable House of Commons, for the effectual suppressing the excessive drinking of the liquor commonly called gin, or compound spirits.

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The much-lamented death of Madam Geneva : the eighteenth-century gin craze / Patrick Dillon.

Reasons humbly offer'd to the Honourable House of Commons, for the effectual suppressing the excessive drinking of the liquor commonly called gin, or compound spirits.