The desire for intoxicating liquors a disease : its causes, its effects, and its cure, with the danger of a relapse : together with illustrative sketches, the good salesman, the would-be politician, &c. / by George Moore.

  • Moore, George, of Baltimore.
Date:
1864
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Credit: The desire for intoxicating liquors a disease : its causes, its effects, and its cure, with the danger of a relapse : together with illustrative sketches, the good salesman, the would-be politician, &c. / by George Moore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INTRODUCTION. In presenting this little book to its read- er, it may be proper to say a few words by way of explanation. In writing it the au- thor has had four things in view, all of which are subservient to one object, and that is to benefit, as far as its influence may extend, a class of my fellow-citizens, who, like myself, have been too free in an in- dulgence which is at all times dangerous, and not unfrequently attended with disas- trous results. No man can indulge in the habitual use of intoxicating liquors without the hazard of becoming a victim to his folly in the loss of character, of property and life. It were criminal in the voice of ex- perience to be silent while the evil is pro- gressing, and the souls and bodies of men are involved in the ruin it produces. The first thing I have in view is to show that drunkenness is a disease. The second, 1*