Alcohol and the human body : an introduction to the study of the subject, and a contribution to national health / by Sir Victor Horsley and Mary D. Sturge, with a chapter by Arthur Newsholme.
- Victor Horsley
- Date:
- 1911
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Alcohol and the human body : an introduction to the study of the subject, and a contribution to national health / by Sir Victor Horsley and Mary D. Sturge, with a chapter by Arthur Newsholme. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![“The baneful effects of the poison affect all communities.” — VuN ZiEMSSEN. “Alcohol is a poison—so is strychnine; so is arsenic; so is opium. It ranks with these agents. Health is always in some way or other injured by it.”—The late Sir A.sdkew Clauk, M.D., Physician to II.M. Queen Victoria. “Through the accumulation of small injuries it is that constitutions are commonly undermined, and break down long before their time. And if we call to mind how' far the average duration of life falls below the j)ossible duration, we see how immense is the loss.”—Heubekt Spencer, Eihi^cation, p. 14. “'The old .saying, ‘Wine is the milk of old ])eople,’ is entirely wrong ; that, on the contrary, milk is for old ])eople, with rare exceptions, one of the best articles of food ; while the habitual u.se of alcohol, excepting in the smallest quantity, is to them even more injurious than to younger people in their full activity.”—Sir Hermann Weber, M.l)., F.R.C.P., 1906, author of The ProlonguLion of Life. The taberner in “The Four Elements”—A Miracle Play : “For if ye drink a draught or two They will mak you, ere ye thence go By (Jupiter) stark mad.”](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2901072x_0032.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
