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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![15th, 1875, said: “I do not over-estimate the facts when I say that if such a miracle could be performed in England as a general conversion to temperance, the vitality of the nation would rise one-third in value; and this without any reference to the indirect advantages that would of necessity follow.” Dr. Alfred Carpenter writes to the Times :—“ We can- not prove the safety of moderate drinking by citing the evidence of those who live to old age in spite of it; but we can prove the deadly influence which it has upon the human body by the distinct evidence afforded by the mor- tality of any general hospital, which tells us by unmistakable testimony that the person who habitually uses alcohol, as at present supplied, saps the foundation of his health and shortens his life ; and that its administration to our chil- dren tends to produce a race of individuals who are natur- ally weak both in mind and bod}^, and who have shorter lives than their fathers. If the use of alcohol as a diet were abolished for all persons under fifty, our grandchildren w'ould find the length of life much beyond that which is settled by Dr. Farr as the average to which men now live.” With this weighty authority on our side we would earnestly advise all to consider carefully the facts we have laid before them, and to abide strictly by the laws of Temperance—the handmaid of Health and Longevity. [See also page 32.]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28057077_0090.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
