Part 6 — ALCOHOL A CAUSE OF DISEASE
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“A foe more dreadful or deadly than the Russian or the plague.”—Florence Nightingale, from the “Crimea.”
“Most diseases have their rise in intemperance.”—Lord Bacon.
“An active and powerful cause of disease.”—Prof. Youmans.
“The evils of alcohol are wide-spread and countless.”—C. R. Agnew, M. D.
“Sooner or later proves injurious to the human constitution without any exception.”—Sir B. Brodie, Sir James Clark, Sir J. Eyre, Dr. Marshall Hall, Dr. A. T. Thompson, Dr. A. Ure, the Queen’s Physicians, and seventy-eight leaders in Medicine and Surgery, of England, 1839.
“Alcohol is neither a food nor a drink suitable for his [man’s] natural demands.”—B. W. Richardson, M. A., M. D., F. R. S.
“If alcohol were unknown, half the sin and a large part of the poverty and unhappiness would disappear from the world.”—Edmond W. Parkes, M. D., F. R. S.
“The curse of an army is intoxicating liquors.”—Parkes.
“Injurious to health, destructive to life.”—Kant.
“Has inflicted greater calamities than war, pestilence, and famine.”—Gladstone.