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Brain and nerve cells in their healthy state and after injury by alcohol. Colour lithograph, ca. 1920.

Bovril : those who go down to the sea in ships have perhaps more need for Bovril than any other class of men / [Bovril Limited].

Death-rates in pneumonia increase with alcoholic habits.

An abstinent gentleman is read to in the park by a boy. Lithograph, c. 1840, after T. Wilson.

A man standing in a law court vows to reform to temperance. Lithograph, c. 1840, after T. Wilson.

A well attended meeting of "total abstainers" in the Sadler's Wells Theatre. Wood engraving, c. 1854, after G. Cruikshank.

A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: patients seated at a drunken dinner table and two bedridden patients with some meagre chips. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.

Independent Order of Rechabites : the abstainers' Friendly Society ... : [Calendar] 1938.

Hints designed to promote beneficence, temperance, and medical science / By John Coakley Lettsom.

Social questions in the orient : great mass meeting (under the auspices of the Anti-Opium Urgency Committee, the Christian Union for the Severance of the Connection of the British Empire with the Opium Trade, and the World's W.C.T.U.) in the Central Hall, Newcastle-0n-Tyne, Friday evening, November 23rd, 1894.

At a court, held at Punch-Hall, in the colony of Bacchus. The indictment and tryal of Sr. Richard Rum. A person of noble birth and extraction, well known both to rich and poor throughout all America. Who was accused for several misdemeanours against His Majesty' liege people, viz. killing some, wounding others, bringing thousands to poverty, and many good families to utter ruin.

Hints designed to promote beneficence, temperance, and medical science. Vol. I.

Smoking and drinking / by James Parton.

An examination of the essays Bacchus and Anti-Bacchus / by John MacLean.

The mighty destroyer displayed, in some account of the dreadful havock made by the mistaken use as well as abuse of distilled spirituous liquors. By a lover of mankind. [Two lines from Ecclesiastes]

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Hints designed to promote beneficence, temperance, and medical science. Vol. I.

Smoking and drinking / by James Parton.

An examination of the essays Bacchus and Anti-Bacchus / by John MacLean.

The mighty destroyer displayed, in some account of the dreadful havock made by the mistaken use as well as abuse of distilled spirituous liquors. By a lover of mankind. [Two lines from Ecclesiastes]