| Description Of Item | Press cutting from an unknown publication, published in June or July 1865. The small article has been copied and published in many journals. It is named ‘A Cure for Drunkenness’ and quotes what ‘an exiled Pole’ has written ‘to the Reader’. In his country, to cure drunkenness, they ‘shut up in a room’ the patient and give him alcoholic drinks cut with water and meals cooked with alcohol, until ‘his organs absolutely abhor any alcohol’ so ‘from this period the very smell of spirits produces on him almost the effect of an emetic’.
From the collection of Thomas Laycock. |