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Excerpt from Drunkenness, Its Nature and Cure, or Asylums for Inebriates: An Address Delivered Before the Ohio State Medical Society, at Its Annual Session, June, 1859
To administer a remedy in every-day practice with any hope of success, we must ascertain the seat and nature of disease. And to impress upon the mind the importance of any plan of treatment for the cure of drunkenness, it may be proper to inquire what it is.
In the examination of machinery, we admire its polish, its nice adjustments, and its skillfully-balanced power. Within a given time, and with entire safety to itself, its wheels may perform a given num ber of revolutions. Accelerated beyond this, the whole structure begins to shake; joints are opened, screws are loosened, bolts are broken, and alarming injury speedily follows.
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