On the use and abuse of alcoholic liquors, in health and disease / by William B. Carpenter.

Date:
1850
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Credit: On the use and abuse of alcoholic liquors, in health and disease / by William B. Carpenter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    this measui’c of advocacy. For sad experience has shown, that a large proportion of mankind cannotj partly for want of the self-restraint which proceeds from moral and religions culture, be temperate in the use of Alcoholic liquors; and that the reformation of those who have acquired habits of intemperance cannot be accomplished by any means short of entire Abstinence from fermented liquors. Further, experience has shown that, in the present dearth of effectual education among the masses, and with the existing temptations to Intemperance arising out of the force of example, the almost compulsory drink- ing-usages of numerous trades, and the encourage- ment which in various ways is given to the abuse of Alcoholic liquors, nothing short of Total Abstinence can prevent the continuance, in the rising genera- tion, of the terrible evils which we have at present to deplore. And lastly, experience has also proved that this reformation cannot be carried to its re- quired extent, without the co-operation of the edu- cated classes; and that their influence can only be eff’ectually exerted by example. There is no case in which the superiority of example over mere precept is more decided and obvious, than it is in this. “ 1 practise total abstinence myself,^^ is found to ])c worth a thousand exhortations; and the lamentable