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No author Given - On the Effects of Ardent Spirits

Title: On the Effects of Ardent Spirits
Description: Philadelphia, The Tract Association of Friends. Pamphlet. no date, perhaps circa 1847-1857 based on OCLC records. Disbound pamphlet, lacking any wraps that may have been issued. 8 pp. No. 7 printed on the lower left of the title page. A short temperance piece on the dangers of alcohol and alcoholism, citing anecdotal evidence of its effects of people in the West Indies, as well as in experiments conducted by Dr. Beaumont on his patient, St. Martin, whose wound provided an opening into his stomach. Also mentioned are the benefits of water and urgings to mothers not to spoil children in the nursery with wine or other drinks. Issued by the Association of Friends, or Quakers. GOOD condition. Heavy foxing and spotting to the piece. Some curling and roughness along the binding edge. Good .

Keywords: Noisbn Religion/Theology

Price: US$ 49.00 Seller: Mare Booksellers
- Book number: 009255

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