R0954-6 Miscellaneous – The Effects Of Alcoholism

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Dr. S. G. Howe found that the parents of one hundred and forty-five, out of three hundred idiots, were habitual drunkards. He attributed one half of the cases of idiocy in the state of Massachusetts to intemperance, and he is sustained in his opinion by the most reliable authorities.

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— March, 1887 —