"Ode to Health;

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No Alcohol in Grain, Nor
Quinine in Peruvian Bark.
To obtain alcohol it is very well known that the
pure grain must go through, at least, a partial
state of putrefaction to produce the poisonous produc-
tion, and thus, by the perversion of man turning it
out of its natural state. And this unnatrual
production, is frequently reccommended and admin-
istered to the sick, and debilitated invalid, impart-
ing neither strength, nor nourishment, but rapidly
wasteing what little strength and vitality he has left
and thereby shortening his life, and hastening him to the
tomb. Alcoholic Medication.
has been a fruitful source of wretchedness and ruin
to great numbers of the human family. A goodly number
of eminent physicians have borne testimony against its use
for any medical purpose. Such men have an approving conscience and will by gratefully remembered by the more enlightened, and better informed part of mankind. Much however remains to be done, before this terrible evil is entirely banished by the medical faculty, and excluded from the chambers of the sick and dying. Light is spreading upon this subject, and such men, as ???, Youmans. Hicks,

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