The temperance primer : an elementary lesson book designed to teach the nature and properties of alcoholic liquors, and the action of alcohol on the body / by J. James Ridge.

  • Ridge, J. J. (John James), 1847-1908
Date:
1879
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Credit: The temperance primer : an elementary lesson book designed to teach the nature and properties of alcoholic liquors, and the action of alcohol on the body / by J. James Ridge. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    greater than that of the drinkers of Alcohol. Some people say they do not believe that strong drink shortens life, because they know some old men who drink a great deal, and also, perhaps, some abstainers who have died young. But it would be just as sensible to say that war cannot be dangerous because there are some old soldiers who have never been 'wounded. Abstainers and non-abstainers die at all ages, but more of those who do not drink any Alcohol live to old age, than of those who do. Hence it is probable that if you abstain from all intoxicating drinks you will live longer than if you take them. [Perhaps the most important change which Alcohol produces in the body, and which often leads to disease and death, is that called fatty degeneration,* by which the Avails of the blood-vessels and the substance of the heart are much weakened. When this is the case the blood-vessels often burst in the brain, or elsewhere, and apoplexy,* paralysis, and perhaps sudden death, result.]