Religious and educational aspects of temperance / by various authors.

Date:
[1874?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Religious and educational aspects of temperance / by various authors. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    FEMALE INTEMPERANCE. BY BORMAN KERR, M.D., F.L.S. Being the substance of a Lecture delivered to the ladies of the Christian Workers’ Temperance Union, at 17, Old Cavendish Street, London, W., on 31st January, 1880, Surgeon-General C. R. Francis, M.D., late Principal of the Calcutta Medical College, in the chair. After stating that he considered it a great honour to be associated with the Union in their endeavours to do away with England’s greatest curse, especially among the female portion of the community, Surgeon-General Francis called upon Dr. Borman Kerr to deliver a lecture on ‘Female Intemperance.’ Dr. Kerr said that, though intemperance had been known in all ages of the world’s history, the women of no country, ancient or modern, had been, till recently, accused of wide- spread inebriety. Female intemperance was not a characteristic of ancient times. The satirical and scathing allusions, in certain classic satires, to the effects of this form of indulgence on the weaker sex probably referred to the misdeeds of only a few notorious characters. There was no ground for the belief that, save in some rare exceptional instances, female drunkenness was prevalent among the ancients. Intem- perance in those days must have been somewhat different in
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