The drunkard's monitor.
[Kettering] : Dash, printer, Kettering,
[1830-1850?]
Dated from examination of text and style.
The text is within a decorative, floral border.
A diatribe against the misuse of alcohol in the form of a list of short prose sentences followed by a six-verse poem.
Beneath the title - 'O! That men should put an enemy into their mouths to steal away their brains'.
Beneath the title - 'All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race, nor alienate so much property as drunkennes'.
First lines read: If you sish to be always thirsty, be a drunkard; for the oftener and more you drink, the oftener and more thirsty you will be.
Alcoholism