The bases of the temperance reform: an exposition and appeal./ With replies to numerous objections. By Rev. Dawson Burns.

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merely enable you, as it were, to use up that which is
left, and then they leave you more in need of rest than
you wxvere before." " It is worthy of notice that opium is
much less deleterious to the individual than gin or
brandy."
Dr. Bedezoes (I802).-" As the greatest authorities are
against wine; as there are none worth regard on the other
side; and, above all, as there is so little danger of being
thought odd [in children abstaining], why risk the early
destruction of that organ (the stomach) which maybe
regarded as the great regulator of the inward man?"
"All considerations combine to show that fermented
liquors, by their activity, class with the most powerful
and, therefore, with the most hazardous drugs. In women
the digestive organs may be as much injured by a glass
(suppose two ounces) of wine as in a robust man by a
pint."
Dr. IT. B. Carienler.-" My position is, that in the discharge of the ordinary duties of life, alcohol is not necessary, but injurious, in so far as it acts at all. Even
in small quantities habitually taklen, it perverts the ordinary functions by which the body is sustained in
health."
Sir A. Car/isle, Jf.D.-" Long-continued experience in
my profession has convinced me of the safety of a sudden transition from the daily employment of strong drink
to a water diet, and that in the most inveterate habits.
I have known the most emaciated and broken-down
frames, both in body and mind, to spring up and become renovated after a total abstinence from strong
liquors for only a fewweeks."
Dr. T. K. ChIambers.-" It is clear that we must cease to
regard alcohol as in any sense an aliment."
Dr. George Cleyne, F.R.S. (I700).-" Without all peradventure, water was the primitive original beverage; and
it is the only simple fluid fitted for diluting, moistening,
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