Despite Outpatient Data on Patterns of Drinking Alcohol, Budd’s 1855 Monograph on the Stomach Failed to Recognize the Potentiality of Prevention

Temperate people were naturally contrasted with the intemperate. Thus, there was “intemperance as to strong liquours [13]” as well as “given to the intemperate use of malt and spirituous liquours [14].” There was also the generalized description concerning “an intemperate man [15].” Intemperance was described in a woman who “had been for many years a notorious dram-drinker [16].” Scarpa [17] noted two patients; one of them was “addicted to intemperance” and the other “addicted to fermented liquours.” Bell’s case was of a sailor “addicted to drinking [18].”