The anatomy of drunkenness / [Robert Macnish].

  • Robert Macnish
Date:
1834
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Credit: The anatomy of drunkenness / [Robert Macnish]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    town, and walking to the houses of the several tradesmen, they have an employment not only more agreeable, but more conducive to health than almost any other dependant on traffic. But they destroy their constitutions by intemperance; not generally by drunkenness, but by taking more liquor than nature requires. Dining at the traveller’s table, each drinks his pint or bottle of wine; he then takes negus or spirit with several of his customers; and at night he must have a glass or two of brandy and water. Few commercial travellers bear the employ for thirty years—the majority not twenty.’* Some writers allege that unmarried women, espe- cially if somewhat advanced in life, are more given to liquor than those who are married. This point IT am unable from my own observation to decide. Women who indulge in this way, are solitary dram- drinkers, and so would men be, had not the arbi- trary opinions of the world invested the practice in them with much less moral turpitude than in the opposite sex. Of the two sexes, there can be no doubt that men are much the more addicted to all sorts of intemperance. * Thackrah on the Effects of the Principal Arts, Trades, and Professions, p. 83.
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