Temperance prize essays / By Drs. Mussey and Lindsly.

Date:
1835
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Credit: Temperance prize essays / By Drs. Mussey and Lindsly. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    that it shall not again overspread the world with disease and death ? | ‘ Ardent spirit—already under sentence of pub- lic condemnation, and with the prospect of under-— going an entire exclusion from the social circle, and the domestic fire-side—still lingers in the sick chamber, the companion and pretended friend of its suffering inmates. It rests with medical men to say how long this unalterable, unrelenting foe of the human race shall remain secure in this sa- ered, but usurped retreat. They have the power, and theirs is the duty to perform the mighty ex- orcism. Let the united effort scon be made, and - the fiend be thrust forth from this strong but un- natural alliance and companionship with men, and cast into that ‘ outer darkness’ which lies beyond the precincts of human suffering and human enjoyment, Gr : \