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Inebriety, its Causes and Cure

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

William Wynn Westcott
William Wynn Westcott*
Affiliation:
Society for the Study of Inebriety
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We are all prepared to grant that alcohol is a poison in a general sense, and that any use of it for the pleasurable sensations it produces may lead to discomfort, to folly and to disease, and yet the majority of our adults persist in its habitual use, and readily take the risks of future suffering for the sake of present daily enjoyment.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 46 , Issue 195 , October 1900 , pp. 653 - 673
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1900 

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