The author of Ten Nights in a Bar-Room turns from fiction to argument, setting out what alcohol does to the body and the soul, denying it any value as food and very little as medicine. The second half surveys the means of cure then on offer, including the Washingtonian Homes of Boston and Chicago, inebriate asylums and religious conversion.
A document of the American temperance movement in the 1870s; its medical claims reflect the knowledge and campaigning zeal of the time. Download the free EPUB.