Alcohol at the bar : the highest medical and scientific testimony concerning its use / compiled by G.W. Bacon.
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- [between 1880 and 1889?]
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Credit: Alcohol at the bar : the highest medical and scientific testimony concerning its use / compiled by G.W. Bacon. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![principle to adopt, as proved by the fact that 50,000 moderate drinkers annually become confirmed drunkards, and take the place of the 50,000 who pass annually to the drunkard’s grave from the great army of 500,000 drunkards. Sixth.—Because by having alcoholic drinks in our houses, we may unconsciously offer them to the reformed drunkard, whose only safety is in total abstinence from every description of intoxicants, and thus cause him again to faU. [See chapter XYIL] Seventh.—Because if we use alcoholic drinks, our chil- dren following our example, may use them and eventually be numbered among the confirmed drunkards, and we may thus be the instruments of bringing them to moral ruin. Eighth.—Because drunkenness is the cause of nearly all the vice, misery, pauperism, and crimes of violence- which abound. [See chapter IX.] Ninth.—Because we ought not to lend the slightest countenance to the drinking habits of society, their direct tendency being to impoverish the country and increase the burdens of the people. [See chapters IX. and XV.] Tenth.—Because in case of accident or illness, the abstainer’s chance of recovery is twenty-five per cent, greater than that of the moderate drinker, and fifty per cent, better than that of those who drink immoderately. [See chapter XII.] Eleventh.—Because the total abstainer can insure his life 15 per cent, cheaper than the moderate drinker. [See chapter XII.] Twelfth.—Because in view of the above and the fact that intemperance is the great barrier to the intellectual, moral, and spiritual progress of the people, we are morally bound, if we care aught for ourselves, or others, to- throw the weight of our example and influence on the side of tem- perance and virtue ; on the side of our country’s weal and not her woe.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28057077_0143.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
