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

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and cooling-the code of drink appointed by nature.
Happy had it been for the race of mankind if other revised and artificial liquors had never been invented! It
has been an agreeable appearance to me to observe with
what freshness and vigor those who, though eating freely
of flesh meat, yet drank nothing but this element, have
lived in health and cheerfulness to a great ag,e."
Dr. Cizeyne, late Physician-General of the Army in Ireland.-"The observation of twenty years in this city
(Dublin) has convinced me that were ten young men, on
their twenty-first birthday, to begin to drink one glass
(equal to two ounces) of ardent spirits, or a pint of port
wine or sherry, and were they to drink this supposed moderate quantity of strong liquor daily, the lives of eight
out of the ten would be abridged by twelve or fifteen
years. They represent themselves as temperate, very
temperate."
S/rA4stley Coofer.-" I never suffer ardent spirits to be
in my house, thinking them evil spirits, and if the poor
could witness the white livers, the dropsies, and shattered
nervous systems which I have seen as the consequence
of drinking, they would be aware that spirits and poisons
are synonymous terms."
Dr. Cofiland (Auth6r of "Dictionary of Practical Medicine ").-" There can be no doubt that, as expressed by
the late Dr. Gregory, an occasional excess is, upon the
whole, less injurious to the constitution, than the practice
of daily taking a moderate quantity of any fermented
liquor or spirit."
Dr. CzlleIn (Edinburgh).-" Simple water, such as nature
affords it, is, without any addition, the proper drink of
mankind. The drinks which supply the necessary liquid
(that is, for the support of the functions of the animal
economy) do it only by the quantity of elementary water
they severally contain."
Dr. Erasmus Darwint (iSoo).-" Under the names of
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