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  • American Pledge, against intoxicating liquors
  • Wholesome advice against the abuse of hot liquors, particularly of coffee, chocolate, tea, brandy, and strong-waters. With directions to know what constitutions they suit, and when the use of them may be profitable or hurtful / by Dr. Duncan ... ; Done out of French.
  • Chinese Materia Dietetica, Ming: Magu liquor; Mungbean liquor
  • Chinese Materia Dietetica: Rice liquor; Guangxi snake liquor
  • Stomach and intestine from a case of poisoning by liquor ammoniae
  • A liqueur label illustrated with a French liquor shop interior. Coloured engraving, 19th century.
  • Draupadi in disguise being induced to take a jar of liquor to Kichaka by Sudeshna. Chromolithograph by R. Varma.
  • Memoirs for the natural history of humane blood, especially the spirit of that liquor / By the honourable Robert Boyle.
  • A bottle of liquor pointing a finger at a devil; representing alcohol as a cause of delirium tremens. Colour lithograph after I.A. Vol'nova, 1984.
  • A purse with a hole in it in the shape of a bottle of liquor; representing the expense of drinking alcoholic drinks. Colour lithograph after I. Tarasov, 1987.
  • People reaching for alcoholic drink falling from a pile of barrels of liquor likened to the upas-tree; skeletons litter the ground. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, c. 1842.
  • Rue du Petit Musc, Paris: street vendors outside a liquor shop;a group of soldiers walk down the street on the left, while a boy wearing clogs sweeps the street. Coloured aquatint by R.B. Peake.
  • United States Internal Revenue stamp for special tax : received from ... the sum of ... dollars for special tax on the business of retail liquor dealer to be carried on at ... : May 1873 ... April 1874.
  • United States Internal Revenue stamp for special tax : received from ... the sum of ... dollars for special tax on the business of retail liquor dealer to be carried on at ... : May 1873 ... April 1874.
  • A whale with the head of the Prince Regent spouts two streams inscribed "The liquor of oblivion" and "The dew of favour", referring to his desertion of the Whigs and to favours bestowed on the Tories. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1812.
  • "It would be simply impossible for a man who drinks to be a scout : keep off the liquor from the very first ; make up your mind to have nothing to do with it." : from "Scouting for boys." / Lt. Gen. Sir Robert baden-Powell ; issued by the Temperance Council of the Christian Churches of England and Wales, Abbey House, Westminster, S.W.1.
  • Dr. to John Dudman, Hampstead Borough Stores, 56 Rosslyn Hill, Hampstead, N.W. : and at Belsize Park : telephone Hampstead 905.
  • To John Dudman, family grocer & provision merchant, oil and Italian warehouseman, wine, spirit, and beer merchant : 56 Rosslyn Hill, Hampstead, N.W. : 5 Belsize Park Terrace.
  • Cnicus benedictus (Holy thistle)
  • A water pump near Bishopsgate Street. Etching, 1791.
  • The harmful effects of wine. Colour lithograph, ca. 1920.
  • The "American Pledge" for total abstinence surrounded by an ornate border. Lithograph, c. 1860 (?).
  • Chinese Materia Dietetica, Ming: Alcoholic beverages
  • Chinese Materia Dietetica, Ming: Alcoholic beverages
  • People walking in a street of Port Louis, Mauritius. Wood engraving after H.G. Robley, 1881.
  • A man diagnosed as suffering from acute dementia. Lithograph, 1892, after a drawing by Alexander Johnston, 1836/1841, for Sir Alexander Morison.
  • A man diagnosed as suffering from acute dementia. Lithograph, 1892, after a drawing by Alexander Johnston, 1836/1841, for Sir Alexander Morison.
  • Chinese Materia Dietetica, Ming: Alcoholic beverages
  • Chinese Materia Dietetica, Ming: Alcoholic beverages
  • Professor Yandell Henderson testifying before a U.S. Senate subcommittee that beers containing 3-4% alcohol by volume were not intoxicating. Photograph, 1932.