The science temperance text-book : in relation to morals, chemistry, physiology, criticism, and history / [Frederic Richard Lees].

  • Frederic Richard Lees
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1884-
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    reclaimed tailor, emigrated, in 1818, to George’s-town (a suburb of Washington), and from 1848 to 1861 regularly transmitted to Mr Sedvvards £8 annually. This society was absorbed by the greater movement of Father Mathew, commenced in 1838. 1111829, Joshua Harvey, M.D., of Dublin, requested Dr John Cheyne, Physician to the Forces in Ireland, to assist him in the formation of a Temperance Society in that city. On the 15th of August, Dr Cheyne replied in a character¬ istic letter, published anonymously, as ‘by a Physician,’ entitled ‘ A Statement of Certain Effects to be Apprehended from Temperance Societies.’ He says :— “ The observation of twenty years in this city has convinced me that, were ten young men, on their twenty-first birthday, to begin to drink one glass [ — 2 oz. alcohol] of ardent spirits, or a pint of port wine, 01- sherry, and were they to drink this supposed moderate quantity of strong liquor daily, the lives of eight out of the ten would be abridged by twelve or fifteen years.” The Dublin Temperance Sociely being formed, issued a series of admirable tracts.* The first letter of Dr Cheyne thus commences :— “ It would appear to me that those who wish to encourage temperate habits ought to aim at three things. First. To disabuse all sorts and conditions of men with respect to the harmlessness of fermented liquors. Second. To show the advantage, in point of economy, of laying them aside. Thirdly. To prove that to use them for their own sake is irreconcil¬ able with religious principle. The benefits supposed to flow from their liberal use in medicine, and especially in diseases once universally, and still vulgarly, supposed to # 1. A Letter on the Effects of Wine and Spirits. By a Physician. Printed for the Dublin Temperance Society : 1829. No. 1. Price 6d. 2. A Second Letter. By the same. 1829. No. 2. Price 6d. 3. Political Evils of Lntemperance. By J. Id. [Joshua Harvey]. No. 3. Price 3d. 4. Remarks on the Evils, Occasions, and Cures of Lntemperance. By W. U. [Rev. Dr Ur wick]. No. 4. Price 4 d.