On the Use and Abuse of Alcoholic Liquors
By William Benjamin Carpenter
CARPENTER, William Benjamin (1813-1885).
On the use and abuse of alcoholic liquors, in health and disease. Prizeessay.
Massachusetts Temperance Society by Wm. Crosby & H. P. Nichols Boston: 1851 SECOND AMERICAN EDITION. Prize essay on the use of alcoholic liquors in health and disease is based on the latest scientific evidence, written by a leading English physiologist. Includes a introduction by John Collins Warren (1778-1856). William B. Carpenter was examiner in physiology in the University of London and professor of medical jurisprudence in University College. He also wrote the Principles of General and Comparative Physiology and Principles of Human Physiology. Cordasco 50-0313. hardcover 12mo. xxviii, 264 p
Glasgow physician Hutcheson notes that the essence of dipsomania is �the
irresistible impulse which drives the unhappy being to do that which he knows to
be pernicious and wrong, and which, in the intervals of the paroxysms, he views
with loathing and disgust.� (quoted in Carpenter, 1853)
The drunkard not only injures and enfeebles his own nervous system, but entails mental disease upon his family. His daughters are nervous and hysterical; his sons are weak, wayward, eccentric, and sink under the pressure of excitement of some unforeseen exigency, or the ordinary calls of duty.
That a very large proportion of human misery, including poverty, disease,
and crime, is induced by the use of alcoholic or fermented liquors as beverages
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William Benjamin Carpenter CB FRS (October 29, 1813�November 1
0 or 19th[1] 1885) was an English physiologist and naturalist.
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