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'Because there is pain': Alcoholism, Temperance and the Victorian Physician
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'Because there is pain': Alcoholism, Temperance and the Victorian Physician
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Liquor was an essential household item in Canada for much of the nineteenth century. As a beverage, it was considered safer than milk or water, and until the 1830-40s cheaper than tea or coffee. As a "social lubricant", it facilitated relations between friends, tradesmen and travellers, and functioned as a commodity of exchange for pioneer areas short of specie. Alcohol was also popularly believed to have medicinal qualities. Given the widespread use of alcohol in health, disease and diet, there was increasing incidence of alcohol abuse in the nineteenth century. In response to the growing abuse, the Canadian temperance movement was organized, spearheaded by the Presbyterian Montreal Temperance Society and its organ The Canada Temperance Advocate, established in 1835.
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Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin canadien d'histoire de la médecine
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Vol. 2
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no. 1
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1-22
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Summer 1985
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en
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Krasnick, Cheryl L. “‘Because There Is Pain’: Alcoholism, Temperance and the Victorian Physician.” Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin canadien d’histoire de la médecine Vol. 2, no. 1 (Summer 1985): 1–22. http://www.cbmh.ca/index.php/cbmh/article/view/85.
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