[Health and comfort in old age : and the safety of immediate and entire discontinuance of spirit drinking described and exemplified; being the substance of a speech].

  • Shillitoe, Thomas, 1754-1836.
Date:
[1833]
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Credit: [Health and comfort in old age : and the safety of immediate and entire discontinuance of spirit drinking described and exemplified; being the substance of a speech]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    33nti'3J) anil ^foreign Ccmpa-anrf ^enctp. OFFICE, ALDINE CHAMBERS, rATERNOSTEU BOW. HEALTH AND COMFORT IN OLD AGE. AND THE SAFETY OF IMMEDIATE AND ENTIRE DISCONTINUANCE OF SPIRIT DRINKING DESCRIBED AND EXEMPLIFIED. BEING TI1E Substance of a Speed! by 31 r. Shiliitoc. AT EXETER HALL. MAY 21, 1833. Mr. Siiillitoe. of Tottenham, addressed the meet- ing to the following effect:—I believe 1 am safe in, saying that duty has brought me here to-day, to prove, from my own experience of more than thirty years, which is said to be the best schoolmaster, that ardent spirits are not essential to the health and to the comfort of man- kind ; and also to prove the fallacy of the opinion abroad, that where individuals have been in the habitual use of them, it is dangerous for such to abandon their use all at once. A fright when a lad brought on a very severe nervous complaint, which increased as l grew up. At the twenty- fourth year of my age, my health became so impaired, that my medical attendant ordered me to quit London altogether, and put me on a very generous diet ; a beef- steak, and some of the best ale that could be procured, were ordered for my breakfast, and, at my dinner and supper, plenty of good ale and wine, and, to avoid obesity, vegetable diet. This mode of dieting myself I pur- sued for twenty years ; my health gradually declined ; my nerves were so enfeebled, that twice I was con- fined to my bed from the sudden sight of a mouse. These frights, too, which proceeded from different causes, produced such dread, such horror, such debility, and such siuking, and frequent craving for food and stimu- lants, for several days afterwards, and my frame became so overcharged with the quantity of food and liquids, and my nervous irritability so increased, that I felt as if I could not live. Smoking, and spirits and water, were No. 60.