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and loathing, the fenfe of faintnefs and dehility, 
the finkings, languors, and horrors, which dram- 
drinkers fo often experience; and why they fo 
rarely furvive the attack of an inflammatory or 
acute difeafe. 
A fmall glafs of ardent {pirit forced into the fto- 
mach of certain animals, throws them into violent 
convulfions, and even a tea-{poonful injected into 
their veins, almoft inftantly deprives them of life! 
So immediately fatal are its effects when applied to 
the naked nerves, or blood veffels, that it may lite- 
rally be pronounced a poifon of the moft dangerous 
and malignant kind! It is abhorred by the brute 
¢ creation, who all, without exception, turn away 
from it with the utmoft difgult. It is equally de- 
tefted by man in his infant ftate, till his appetite is 
depraved by evil example, and his natural averfion 
fubdued by the all-conquering power of habit. 
Since cuftom has rendered the ufe of fpirits fo fa- 
miliar in this country, the evil is become epidemic, 
and the rage for {trong liquors, like contagion itfelf, 
pervades even the moft fequeftered villages, info- 
much that it is now become difficult even for the 
moft abftemious perfons wholly to efcape. 
It is with peculiar concern, however, that we find 
fo many inftances of it even among the female fex, 
who, from being once the patterns of temperance, 
and every thing that was amiable, are now reduced 
to infamy and contempt! A circumftance not lefs 
frequent 
