Temperance Lunch.

Medical declarations on temperance.

As early as 1736, the Royal College of Physicians submitted to Parliament a representation concerning the excessive consumption of spirituous liquors. No further authoritative statement was made for nearly a century, by which time the first Temperance and Total Abstinence societies had been formed. Many medical men were happy to support the call for moderation and a number of societies issued d...

4. 2 Temperance movements

In this section, the issues in focus are the structures and goals of the temperance movements in Sweden and the Netherlands and their impact on the developments of alcohol policies. Usually the development of temperance movements is divided into a first generation that emerged during the first half of the nineteenth century and a second generation that emerged during the second half of that cen...

Alcohol and temperance.

IN ALCOHOL in the British Isles from Roman Times to 1996: An Annotated Bibliography, David Gutzke has compiled a very informative overview for scholars. As he states in the introduction, the text is “the first comprehensive list of historical studies on alcohol, and the first to annotate critically their theses” (p. ix). He cites not simply the work of historians, but that of sociologists, anth...

Irish influence on the temperance movement.

Free Lunch

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