Alcoholism - Great Britain
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Drink and the Victorians : the temperance question in England, 1815-1872 by Brian Harrison.
Harrison, Brian Howard.Date: 1971- E-books
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A friendly admonition to the drinkers of gin , Brandy, and other Distilled Spirituous Liquors. With an Humble Representation of the Necessity of restraining a Vice so destructive of the Industry, Morals, Health, and Lives of the People. To which are Added, In an Appendix, directions by a very Eminent Physician, to such as may be desirous to break off that odious and fatal Habit of drinking Drams. By Stephen Hales, D. D. Clerk of the Closet to Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales.
Hales, Stephen, 1677-1761.Date: 1751- E-books
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A proper reply to a scandalous libel, intituled, The trial of the spirits : in a letter to the author.
T. S., active 18th century.Date: [1736?]- E-books
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The consequences of laying an additional duty on spirituous liquors, candidly considered . By a bystander.
BystanderDate: [1751]- E-books
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Distilled spirituous liquors the bane of the nation being some considerations humbly offer'd to the legislature. By which it will appear, I. That the Landed Interest suffers near a Million a Year, by the Distilling, Compounding and Vending of Spirits; with some Remarks relating to the Revenue:-And the Frauds of the British Distillery Expos'd and Detected. II. A Physical Account (drawn from Experiments and the Opinions of the most Eminent Physicians) of the Nature of all Distill'd Spirituous Liquors, and the Malignant Effects they have upon Human Bodies. The second edition, improv'd and enlarg'd; with a new introduction. To which is added an appendix, containing The late Presentments of the Grand-Juries of London, Middlesex, and the Tower-Hamlets: Together with the Report made by His Majesty's Justices of the Peace at Hicks's Hall, Jan. 1735-6.
Wilson, Thomas, 1703-1784.Date: M.DCC.XXXVI. [1736]