The treatment of alcoholic inebriety : read before the Northwestern Medical and Surgical Association, March 18, 1893, and before the American Association for the Study and Cure of Inebriety, March 23, 1893 / by Frederick Peterson.

  • Frederick Peterson
Date:
1893
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Credit: The treatment of alcoholic inebriety : read before the Northwestern Medical and Surgical Association, March 18, 1893, and before the American Association for the Study and Cure of Inebriety, March 23, 1893 / by Frederick Peterson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    . - '• ' I '*V of the Black Death. Here would be villages and industries, manufactures and arts, the commoners and the gentry, living in business prosperity and domestic happiness. Thither the drunkard would repair with his family, and obtaining a position, sup¬ port himself and them, and lead a useful life as if such a thing as inebriety never existed. A majority of inebriates would immigrate there of their own accord, but certain ones would need commitment by law for three years. Such commitment, however, would be no hardship, for the rights of voting, of citizenship, the solace of society, the pleasure of fol¬ lowing one’s trade or calling, of earning a livlihood, and of living with one’s family would make existence not only tolerable but blessed. The realization of such a project is not an ;‘irridescent dream.” It is quite within the bounds of feasibility. A small additional tax upon spirits and spirit-venders would be sufficient to acquire some Nantucket and conse¬ crate it to this purpose. 201 W. 54th Street, New York. A
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