The psychology of alcoholism / by George B. Cutten.

  • George Barton Cutten
Date:
1907
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Credit: The psychology of alcoholism / by George B. Cutten. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    | ($25,750) to the person or persons who will invent some way of making alcohol undrinkable. Pamphlets giving the exact requirements governing the competi- tion have been printed in the French language and sent to the Russian consulates in foreign countries. In Canada and Australia, India and Ireland, Europe and America, all over the world there seems to have been a spontaneous awakening, the laws of the land proclaiming the progress which has been made, and acting as harbingers of a public restriction of the manufacture, sale, and use of alcoholic beverages. The changed attitude of society during late years, concerning alcohol and the alcoholic, is another form in which we notice the awakening. No longer is the . inebriate tolerated; no longer the admiring onlookers proclaim the staggering drunkard to be “as drunk as a lord.” While drinking still flourishes, it is with less public encouragement, less manifestation of noisy revelry, and with less pride in drinking as an enviable accomplishment than in the days of our fathers. years ago. For the sake of civilisation we may well be pleased that the man who made his boast that he could “drink his companions under the table,” is a relic of the past, and the society which could tolerate such a man is dead and buried. The excuse of necessity has now been abolished, for experiments in the French army show that under all circumstances the French soldier is 40 per cent. more efficient when ~ subjected to a régime of total abstinence. Generals English army. The labouring man who used to feel the necessity of having his dram regularly in order to do his work and do it well, now knows that he was formerly deceived, and that he is the better workman without it.
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