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An Essay, Medical, Philosophical, and Chemical on Drunkenness and its Effects on the Human Body
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Routledge
264 Pages
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Routledge
264 Pages
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Routledge
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It was during the course of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that the problem of chronic alcohol dependence in modern society and its consequent medical effects emerged. The topic of drunkenness figures prominently in the thinking and writing of social reformers, politicians, theorists, medical practitioners, and psychiatrists. Eventually, by the mid-nineteenth century, ‘alcoholism’ was... Read more
Preface. Introduction by Roy Porter. An Essay, Medical, Philosophical, and Chemical, on Drunkenness and its Effects on the Human Body by Thomas Trotter.
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Thomas Trotter, Roy Porter
