Excerpt from The British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review, Vol. 58: Or Quarterly Journal of Practical Medicine and Surgery; July October, 1876
The evil deeds of Alcohol against both the individual and society are so glaring and noisy, that orators and writers are sorely tempted to dwell on them with an exclusiveness which overshadows any inquiry into its possible virtues. In his "Diseases of Modern Life," Dr. Richardson piles up the usual heavy indictments against this article of diet, enumerating the various pathological conditions consequent on its excessive employment; but he does not allude to the diseases it may have warded off, the lives it may have lengthened, and the misery it may have lightened. The best he can say of it is that it is a "pleasant shroud" implying thereby that its shadow is as the shadow of death, a decent dress for a self-dug grave.
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