Alcohol : its use and abuse / [W.S.G].

  • William Smith Greenfield
Date:
1878
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Credit: Alcohol : its use and abuse / [W.S.G]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    artificial habits, and no passions or vices, the use of intoxicating liquors would need no check; but in our actual state, all experience shows the dangers which may and do result from their abuse. But, as an ex- ample of the many wrong ideas which exist as to what excess is, there are few, except medical men, who know what serious injury may be done by drinking which hardly ever approaches intoxication, and which may be unre- cognised by a man’s nearest friends. We shall try to show what is the evil of drinking, and how to avoid it, what the good and how to gain it, without joining in a universal condemnation of the use of alcohol. In the limits of our space we can only touch on the great questions involved; we must leave for the medical profession the study of the accumulated stores of scien- tific observation on the use of alcohol and the results of its abuse, from which we shall only draw such facts as may seem to be most useful for our purpose; nor can we even refer more than cursorily to the views of those whose scientific and moral eminence lends weight to their opinion as to the usefulness or injuriousness of alcohol. But we shall endeavour to give such reference to more extensive works as may prove of service to those who seek the higher fountainheads of information. Nor let it be supposed that because we do not advocate or condemn total abstinence, we are to be counted either amongst its opponents or supporters, or that we are blind
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