A letter to the members of the Temperance Society showing that the use of tea and coffee cannot be safely substituted for that of spirituous liquors : and proposing for their adoption a rule of diet from which those substances are excluded / by James Henry.

  • Henry, James, 1798-1876.
Date:
1830
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Credit: A letter to the members of the Temperance Society showing that the use of tea and coffee cannot be safely substituted for that of spirituous liquors : and proposing for their adoption a rule of diet from which those substances are excluded / by James Henry. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    1*2 unimpaired, but injurious, producing those very evils of which when judiciously used they are the proper remedy, so 2. Spirituous liquors are not only useless to the stomach of a healthy man but posi- tively injurious, retarding and deranging the digestive process, and laying the foundation for numerous and afflicting diseases (2). 3. The most temperate use of strong liquors has a manifest effect on the mind; the thoughts, words, and acts of a man who has taken even a small quantity of wine or spirits, and who is far from being what is commonly called intoxicated or even tipsy, being in a greater or less degree withdrawn from the control of the will, and having de- rived from the stimulus of the liquor an un- due degree of vivacity, which is every now and then manifesting itself in thoughtless expressions afterwards the source of great trouble and unavailing regret. This effect of the most temperate use of strong liquors is matter of daily observation. 4. The temperate use of strong liquors is expensive and hardly reconcilable with good economy. 5. The temperate use of strong liquors is dangerous, because it has a continual ten- dency to degenerate into intemperance; this