The physiology of temperance & total abstinence : being an examination of the effects of the excessive, moderate, and occasional use of alcoholic liquors on the healthy human system / by William B. Carpenter.

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1853
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Credit: The physiology of temperance & total abstinence : being an examination of the effects of the excessive, moderate, and occasional use of alcoholic liquors on the healthy human system / by William B. Carpenter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    imperatively demands the exercise of that Christian self- denial, which was practised and enjoyed by the Apostle Paul; who felt himself called upon to abstain from every indulgence, however innocent in itself, which could endanger a brother's soul. Eor though he regarded flesh and wine as , good creatures of God, yet he nobly lays down as his • own rule— If meat make my hrotlier to offend, 1 will eat no meat while the loorld standeth, lest I make my brother to offendr And this same rule he urges upon the individual members of the Churches he addressed. Take heed he says to the Corinthians, lest by any means your liberty , become a stumlling-Uock to those who are weah.' In a like spirit, he enjoins the Komans ''not to put a stumlling-Uock, or an occasion of falling, in a brother's icay,'' and he gives to this general precept the following special application :— ^' It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink nine, nor anything || whereby thy brother stumhleth, or is offended, or is made tveak. ^' Surely there never Avas a case to which these warnings had a more special or pointed application, than they have ^ to the use of Alcoholic beverages, as ordinarily practised ® in this country; for these, even if they could be proved f to exert no prejudicial influence on such as employ them in moderation', must be admitted to become most fatal J stumbHng-blocks to myriads with whom moderation in « their use is practically impossible. 'I EXTEACTS TEOM THE EeGISTEAE-GtENEEAL'S EePOETS. i I Number of Deaths from Intemperance and Delirium Tremens, in i ^ the Metropolitan Districts, during the 13 years, 1840—52. i 1840 1841 1842 1843 1844 1845 1846 1847 1848 1849 1850 1851 1852 Intemperance 2-2 30 22 34 42 67 90 76 57 64 74 67 80 Delir.uiu Tremens .. 85 83 7G 95 95 113 153 156 141 164 155 loO 123 Number of Deaths from Intemjjerance and Delirium Tremens, in England and Wales, in the year 1847, at different Ages. 15-20 20-25 25-30 30-35 35-40 40^5 45-50 50-55 55-60 60-70 70-80 Total ' Intemperance 5 12 23 24 32 35 28 36 24 29 8 256 Delirium Ti-o- 37 12 516 2 18 50 81 85 82 67 50 32