Criminality from Alcoholism
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French workers and the temperance movement.
In 1852, when the medical discoverer of alcoholism, Magnus Huss, was being honoured by the Academie franqaise, a spokesman for the Academie wrote that "France has many drunkards, but happily, no alcoholics." Sixty years later, on the eve of World War I, if one is to believe the reports of parliamentary commissions, economists, hygienists and social reformers, France had few drunks but a plethor...
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