The Trial of Sir Jasper a Temperance Tale in Verse
The Trial of Sir Jasper a Temperance Tale in Verse
S C Samuel Carter Hall
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"* " Drank the poison you supplied. " " The certain truth that our alcoholic beverages— notably, whisky, gin, brandy, and rum— contain a deleterious agent which is decimating our population. . . They are largely mixed with amylic or fusel oil, ingredients which condition, for the most part, the miserable consequences of habitual sottishness. All the spirits in use are nothing more or less than alcohol thus flavoured. "— Mr. Phillips, principal of the Laboratory of the Analytical Department for ...the Inland • Dr. Carpenter gives a fearful list of the diseases that are generated by alcohol : delirium tremens, insanity, oinomania, idiocy, apoplexy, paralysis, epilepsy, moral perversion, irritation of the mucous membrane of the stomach, gastric dyspepsia, congestion of the liver, and others. ILLUSTRATIVE FACTS. 37 Revenue. " Upwards of sixty persons expressed belief in the adulteration of beer. " " There is no doubt that much of the liquor sold at public-houses and beer-shops is adulterated, and often injuriously.
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