| Pages | ||
|---|---|---|
| EFFECTS OF ARDENT SPIRITS. By Dr. Rush | 8 | [A] |
| TRAFFIC IN ARDENT SPIRITS. By Rev. Dr. Edwards | 32 | [B] |
| REWARDS OF DRUNKENNESS | 4 | [C] |
| THE WELL-CONDUCTED FARM | 12 | [D] |
| KITTREDGE’S ADDRESS ON EFFECTS OF ARDENT SPIRITS | 24 | [E] |
| DICKINSON’S APPEAL TO YOUTH | 8 | [F] |
| ALARM TO DISTILLERS AND THEIR ALLIES | 8 | [G] |
| PUTNAM AND THE WOLF | 24 | [H] |
| HITCHCOCK ON THE MANUFACTURE OF ARDENT SPIRITS | 28 | [I] |
| M’ILVAINE’S ADDRESS TO YOUNG MEN | 24 | [J] |
| WHO SLEW ALL THESE? | 4 | [K] |
| SEWALL ON INTEMPERANCE | 24 | [L] |
| BIBLE ARGUMENT FOR TEMPERANCE | 12 | [M] |
| FOUR REASONS AGAINST THE USE OF ALCOHOLIC LIQUORS | 12 | [N] |
| DEBATES OF CONSCIENCE ON ARDENT SPIRITS | 16 | [O] |
| BARNES ON TRAFFIC IN ARDENT SPIRITS | 24 | [P] |
| THE FOOLS’ PENCE | 8 | [Q] |
| THE POOR MAN’S HOUSE REPAIRED | 12 | [R] |
| JAMIE; OR A WORD FROM IRELAND FOR TEMPERANCE | 16 | [S] |
| THE WONDERFUL ESCAPE | 4 | [T] |
| THE EVENTFUL TWELVE HOURS | 16 | [U] |
| THE LOST MECHANIC RESTORED | 4 | [V] |
| REFORMATION OF DRUNKARDS | 4 | [W] |
| TOM STARBOARD AND JACK HALYARD | 24 | [X] |
| THE OX SERMON | 8 | [Y] |
THE
EFFECTS OF ARDENT SPIRITS
UPON
THE HUMAN BODY AND MIND.
BY BENJAMIN RUSH, M. D.
By ardent spirits, I mean those liquors only which are obtained by distillation from fermented substances of any kind. To their effects upon the bodies and minds of men, the following inquiry shall be exclusively confined.
The effects of ardent spirits divide themselves into such as are of a prompt, and such as are of a chronic nature. The former discover themselves in drunkenness; and the latter in a numerous train of diseases and vices of the body and mind.
I. I shall begin by briefly describing their prompt or immediate effects in a fit of drunkenness.