Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 edition. Excerpt: ...Medical Temperance Association. Norman Kc., r, M.D., First President of the British Medical Temperance Association the house surgeon of the Chorlton infirmary, and so ably discharged his duties as to merit and receive warm commendation from Dr. Bardsley, the consulting physician. Subsequently Dr.Grindrodentered upon private practice, in which he gained considerable success. His attention was early directed to the temperance movement then occupying public attention; and having already had some experience of the evils of drink, and being a practical abstainer, he threw himself heartily into the movement. He became an active member of the Manchester Temperance (i.e. moderation) Society, and was elected a member of the committee. Dr. Grindrod soon saw that total abstinence was the only safe and effectual remedy for intemperance, and from conviction he began in 1833 to advocate that doctrine, and was the first medical man in England to sign the total abstinence pledge. Dr. Grindrod was a scholar, a writer, an able speaker, a good organizer, and withal an earnest-minded, benevolent Christian gentleman, ever anxious to do good. In a paper on "The Medical History of the Temperance Movement," read at the temperance jubilee file, September 2d, 1879, Dr. Norman Kerr gave a brief resume of the labours of Dr. Grindrod, and said: "He (Dr. Grindrod) founded the first exclusively teetotal society in England at Manchester on 26th February, 1834," and gives as his authority the Templar for April 23, 1874, which contains several serious errors. In this incorrect historical sketch of the life of Dr. Grindrod, the writer says: "Although a member of the committee of the Manchester society, he soon saw that the 'moderation' scheme was...
