 | Benjamin Rush - 1805 - 474 pages
...children. Let us next attend to the chronic effects of ardent spirits upon the body and mind. In the body, they dispose to every form of acute disease ; they...the United States. Hard drinkers seldom escape, and rarely recover from them. The following diseases are the usual consequences of the habitual use of... | |
 | James Thacher - 1826 - 884 pages
..." Let us next attend to the chronic effects of ardent spirits upon the body and mind. In the body, they dispose to every form of acute disease ; they...the United States. Hard drinkers seldom escape, and rarely recover from them. The following diseases are the usual consequences of the habitual use of... | |
 | Temperance Society of Columbia, S.C. - 1829 - 68 pages
...body and mind. In the body they dispose to every form of acute disease ; they excite fevers in those predisposed to them from other causes. This has been...the United States. Hard drinkers seldom escape, and rarely recover from them." He then gives a direful catalogue of diseases induced by the use of ardent... | |
 | Ralph Barnes Grindrod - 1839 - 564 pages
...Rush, " is rendered more frequent and more dangerous, by the use of spirituous liquors."* And again, " this has been remarked in all the yellow fevers which...the United States. Hard drinkers seldom escape, and rarely recover from them."f An aged physician of forty years extensive practice, remarks, " Half the... | |
 | Ralph Barnes Grindrod - 1840 - 542 pages
...Rush, <' is rendered more frequent and more dangerous, by the use of spirituous liquors."* And again, " this has been remarked in all the yellow fevers which...the United States. Hard drinkers seldom escape, and rarely recover from them."t An aged physician of forty years extensive practice, remarks, " Half the... | |
 | Lowell Temperance Union - 1841 - 300 pages
...chronic effects of ardent spirits upon the body and mind. In the body, they dispose to every fortn of acute disease, they moreover excite fevers in persons...the United States. Hard drinkers seldom escape, and rarely recover from them. The following diseases are the usual consequences of the habitual use of... | |
 | Ralph Barnes Grindrod - 1843 - 396 pages
...Rush, " is rendered more frequent and more dangerous, by the use of spirituous liquors. "\ And again, " this has been remarked in all the yellow fevers which have visited the * Bacchus. American Ed., p. 285. t Medical Inquiries by Benjamin Rush, MD, Philadelphia, 1793, vol.... | |
 | Elliot G. Storke - 1859 - 832 pages
...ardent spirits predisposes the system to the attack of every form of acute disease; and excites diseases in persons predisposed to them from other causes. This has been remarked in all the yellow fevers, and other epidemics, which have visited the cities of the United States. Hard drinkers seldom escape,... | |
 | Massachusetts Medical Society - 1829 - 546 pages
...system is left more susceptible of the influence of every exciting cause of disease. Dr. Rush says, in the yellow fevers which have visited the cities of the United States, hard drinkers have seldom escaped, and rarely recovered from them. Seamen, &c., who indulge in this way in hot climates.... | |
 | 1922 - 754 pages
...children. Let us next attend to the chronic effects of ardent spirits upon the body and mind. In the body, they dispose to every form of acute disease : they...the United States. Hard drinkers seldom escape, and rarely recover from them. The following diseases are the usual consequences of the habitual use of... | |
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Let us next attend to the chronic effects of ardent spirits upon the body and mind. In the body, they dispose to every form of acute disease ; they moreover excite fevers in persons predisposed to them, from other causes. This has been remarked in all... 