Modern medical opinions on alcohol : being a series of lectures delivered by well-known medical men.
- Date:
- [1911?]
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Modern medical opinions on alcohol : being a series of lectures delivered by well-known medical men. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![THE PREVAILING INTEMPERANCE AMONG WOMEN: ITS CAUSE AND ITS REMEDY. [By Sip Thomas Barlow, M.D., K.C.V.O., &e.] Sir Thomas Barlow said he was sure it was needless for him to dwell upon the magnitude of the evil which they were to consider. It was quite true ihat amongst the educated classes the coarser forms of drunkenness had greatly diminished, and it was also true that efforts had been made—more or less successfully—to deal with the drinking habits of certain sections of the community—with soldiers and sailors, for instance; and thinking people were trying to face the vast problem of the regulation of the drink traffic, though they had made but little solid progress in practical politics as yet, for still the broad fact remained that intemperance was one of our greatest national crimes, and the greatest hindrance to our national efficiency. They were met to consider intemperance amongst women. What was there special in it which distinguished it from intemperance amongst men ? In many ways they were identical, but he supposed they should agree that the special feature which called for their consideration in female intemperance was secret drinking. Why was it that, relatively, secret drinking was more common amongst women than men ? In his opinion, the chief reason Avas the difference in all ranks of society of the social standard of conduct expected of men and Avomen. In all ciAulised](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28052808_0015.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
