Alcohol and the human body : an introduction to the study of the subject / by Sir Victor Horsley and Mary D. Sturge.

  • Horsley, Sir Victor Alexander Haden, 1857-1916.
Date:
1907
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Credit: Alcohol and the human body : an introduction to the study of the subject / by Sir Victor Horsley and Mary D. Sturge. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Intemperance does not necessarily mean only obvious and palpable drunkenness. From the very moment in which alcohol has disturbed the healthy exercise of the mental faculties, or has impaired the moral sense by unduly excitiug the animal passions, or has in any way unfitted a person for discharging his duties in the proper struggle for survival, from that moment has there been guilt of intemperance.—T. B. Hyslop, M.D., Bethlehem Eoyal Hospital for the Insane, Encyclopazdia Medica, art. on General Paralysis. I am firmly convinced that if drink were eradicated, this court (the Divorce Court) might shut its doors, at any rate for the greater part of the time.—Sir Gorell Barnes, 1906, President of the Divorce Court. no