Author: Clarke,Ebenezer) (no author given on titlepage but Preface signed E.C.)
Title: WORSHIP OF BACCHUS A GREAT DELUSION illustrated by Drawings, Diagrams,Facts and Figures.
Description: London, James Clarke & Co/United Kingdom Band of Hope Union 1876 Illustrations and diagrams . Square octavo brown gilt cloth with a gilt cask with "we can see through it" (tips worn/marked but sound) iv-86pp. Neat inscription on FEP dated 1878. Some signs of use including one clean tear which has been taped and 2 leaves with dusty, tatty margins but no loss of text. *Looking at alcholic drinks from a nutrional point of view, from statistical tables relating to mortality, from fatigue at work comparted in cold, hot or temperate climates. Much of the evidence is however anecdotal although at the end the author links diseases and mental and physical powers to abstinence or inebriation.

Keywords: Iintoxicant temperance teetotal


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