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to spend one shilling in these soul
and health destroying liquors, which in-
variably produce crime, misery, disquiet-
ude and ruin' ....... Many, if
not all, who are termed moderate, may
be said to be in a state of incipient
drunkenness, however they may object to
be so considered."

........................ W. Brooks Esq.

................................... of Manchester

John Higginbottom Esq F.R.C.S. and
F.R.S of Nottingham.

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Fifty two years have now passed [...] -
away [?] since I resolved to abstain
from all intoxicating beverages, and
it has been my greatest temporal
blessing. A great part of that time
I endured great mental and phy-
sical exertion, loss of rest, and extremes
of heat and cold