The dreadful and ruinous effects of dram drinking / elucidated in Mr. Poynder's affecting, important and interesting evidence before the Committee of the Honourable House of Commons, appointed to investigate into the state of the police of the metropolis ... ; to which is annexed, a letter from Mr. Upton, giving an account of the direful effects of dram-drinking.
- John Poynder
- Date:
- [1817?]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The dreadful and ruinous effects of dram drinking / elucidated in Mr. Poynder's affecting, important and interesting evidence before the Committee of the Honourable House of Commons, appointed to investigate into the state of the police of the metropolis ... ; to which is annexed, a letter from Mr. Upton, giving an account of the direful effects of dram-drinking. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Oh that a Man should put an Enemy in his Mouth, To steal away his Brains ! SHAKESPEARE. THE DREADFUL and RUINOUS EFFECTS DRAM DRINKING, ELUCIDATED IN MR. tPOTNDER’S: AFFECTING, IMPORTANT and INTERESTING EVIDENCE Before the COMMITTEE of the Honourable Home of Commons3 APPOINTED TO INVESTIGATE INTO THE STATE OF THE police of file SPcttopoitgi: PROVING That the drinking- of Spirituous Liquors is a Stimulas to Murder, Theft, Breach of Trust, and Laziness; many instances given of the melancholy Proof of the Assertion—Dram-drinking among Females, the Sourse from whence arises most of the Evils of Prostitution; and to the Effects of Liquor is to be ascribed their fust Deviation from the Paths of Virtue.—Numbers of the un¬ happy Culprits who have suffered Death, trace their Ruin to the early Attach¬ ment to Dram-Drinking.—Interesting Account of the difference of the Effects of Beer and Spirits with regard to Intoxication, and the dreadful Mischiefs aris¬ ing from the Use of Spirituous Liquors to that of Beer.—Instances given where Clerks, Servants, &c. have been led to rob their Masters in order to satisfy their inordinate Partiality to Spirituous Liquors.—Above One-eighth of all the Heaths that take place in the Metropolis, above Twenty Years old, happen prematurely, through Excess in drinking Spirits !—The Neglect of Religion is owing to the Habit of Dram Drinking; and to which Evil is chiefly to be ascribed the presenting Melancholy and ALARMING INCREASE of CRIME! TO WHICH IS ANNEXED, _ 1 . A LETTER from Mr. UPTON, Giving an Account of the direful Effects of Dram-Drinking; that it causes Diseased Liver, Dropsy, Apoplexy, Paralysis, Madness, and Death !—The ill Consequences of drinking diluted Spirits and Water at Night, to Persons of a sedentary Habit.—Strong Arguments why Beer and Ale should be the general Beverage, to the total Exclusion of all Spirituous Liquors. ______ ;___. “ The intemperate use of spirituous liquors has been found by experience, for many years past, more destructive to the labouring class of people in cities and manufacturing towns, than all the injuries accruing from unhealthy seasons, impure air, infection and close confinement to work within doors, or much fatigue without.” Dr. Willan. Ecmtson; Printed and Sold by G. Smeeton, 17, St. Martin’s Lane, Charing Cross® [price three pence.] *** In order that every Person may be in Possession of this little Tracts it is printed and published at the Expense of a Philanthropist, at the cost](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3038896x_0001.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
