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  • The bad effect of alcohol drinking on industrial productivity: a healthy young man carrying a drill walking from a smoking factory, contrasted with a bottle of spirits wrapped by a hissing snake. Colour lithograph, 1952.
  • Bar-chart indicating the effects of drinking alcoholic drinks on children's school results in Vienna. Colour lithograph, ca. 1913.
  • Medical reports, on the effects of water, cold and warm, as a remedy in fever, and febrile diseases whether applied to the surface of the body or used as a drink, with observations on the nature of fever; and on the effects of opium, alcohol, and inanition / [James Currie].
  • "In the light of modern science alcohol stands condemned as the greatest co-operating factor for the production of damaged lives." / Dr. Courtenay C. Weeks, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. ; issued by the Temperance Council of the Christian Churches of England and Wales, Abbey House, Westminster, S.W.1.
  • Death-rates in pneumonia increase with alcoholic habits.
  • The spider and fly : the advertiser takes this opportunity of informing his friends and a discerning public, that he continues the trade of making drunkards, paupers, thieves, beggars, adulterers, and murderers, on the most reasonable terms, and without notice.
  • Parents' drinking weakens children's vitality : comparison of children in 50 abstaining and 59 drinking families in one village in Finland ... drink menaces vigor and lives of children.
  • Focus on the new year : get ahead with what you eat : after an indulgent Christmas and new year it is important to get back on track ... / Compass Group Holdings plc.
  • Focus on the new year : get ahead with what you eat : after an indulgent Christmas and new year it is important to get back on track ... / Compass Group Holdings plc.
  • Mr. Philip Snowden says: "I believe that the drink traffic is one of the greatest evils which curse our land to-day" / issued by the Temperance Council of the Christian Churches of England and Wales, Abbey House, Westminster, S.W.1.
  • Two peasants sit at a table as a third man vomits on the floor. Etching by D. Deuchar, 1784, after A. van Ostade (?).
  • Men drinking, vomiting and collapsing around a tavern table. Etching by J. Le Poutre, 17th century, after himself.
  • A king sits drinking at a table surrounded by revelling courtiers and a man about to vomit. Engraving after J. Jordaens, c. 1640.
  • After 1 drink I can feel it a little : after 2 drinks I can feel it a lot : after 3 drinks anybody can feel it! / Durex Information Service for Sexual Health.
  • A veteran of Hotel des Invalides resists gout on account of his formidable alcohol consumption. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by D.T. de Losques, 1910.
  • Nineteen scenes depicting popular disillusionment with doctors and medicine. Coloured wood engraving by Henriot, ca. 1900.
  • Nineteen scenes depicting popular disillusionment with doctors and medicine. Coloured wood engraving by Henriot, ca. 1900.
  • Nineteen scenes depicting popular disillusionment with doctors and medicine. Coloured wood engraving by Henriot, ca. 1900.
  • Nineteen scenes depicting popular disillusionment with doctors and medicine. Coloured wood engraving by Henriot, ca. 1900.
  • Menyanthes trifoliata (Bogbean)
  • Ming herbal (painting): Water chestnut