A dissertation on intemperance : to which was awarded the premium offered by the Massachusetts Medical Society / by William Sweetser.

  • Sweetser, William, 1797-1875.
Date:
1829
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Credit: A dissertation on intemperance : to which was awarded the premium offered by the Massachusetts Medical Society / by William Sweetser. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    Q^/n^c^ka^u^J^-kJ^^- DISSERTATION. [At the annual meeting in June 1827, the Society voted to offer a premium of Fifty Dollars for the best Dissertation which should be offered during the year, on the subject of Intemperance; and the Counsellors appointed a. Committee to receive the Dissertation, and award the Premium. At the annual meeting in June, 1828, the Committee reported that no Dissertation had been received in season to be entitled to the Premium ; and the offer was renewed for another year. Several Dissertations wete then offered, and the Premium was adjudged to the following ; which was read at the annual meeting in June, 1829, and is now printed by the Society, agreeably to the original vote on the subject.] Pass where we may, through city or through town, Village or hamlet of this merry land, ev'ry twentieth pace Conducts UY unguarded nose to such a whiff Of stale debauch, forth-issuing from the sties That Law has licens'd, as makes TempYance reel. Smith, cobbler, joiner, he that plies the shears, And he that kneads the dough', all loud alike, All learned and all drunk ! A very slight acquaintance with the laws of the animal constitution, will serve to convince us that its wise Author never fitted or intended it for violent ex- citements. No matter whether we view it in a moral or physical light, it holds equally true that unduly ex- cited action tends to the waste of those powers on which health and life depend. Death we know is sometimes the sudden result of violently aroused pas-