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Brain and nerve cells in their healthy state and after injury by alcohol. Colour lithograph, ca. 1920.

Bovril : those who go down to the sea in ships have perhaps more need for Bovril than any other class of men / [Bovril Limited].

Death-rates in pneumonia increase with alcoholic habits.

An abstinent gentleman is read to in the park by a boy. Lithograph, c. 1840, after T. Wilson.

A man standing in a law court vows to reform to temperance. Lithograph, c. 1840, after T. Wilson.

A well attended meeting of "total abstainers" in the Sadler's Wells Theatre. Wood engraving, c. 1854, after G. Cruikshank.

A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: patients seated at a drunken dinner table and two bedridden patients with some meagre chips. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.

Independent Order of Rechabites : the abstainers' Friendly Society ... : [Calendar] 1938.

Hints designed to promote beneficence, temperance, and medical science / By John Coakley Lettsom.

Social questions in the orient : great mass meeting (under the auspices of the Anti-Opium Urgency Committee, the Christian Union for the Severance of the Connection of the British Empire with the Opium Trade, and the World's W.C.T.U.) in the Central Hall, Newcastle-0n-Tyne, Friday evening, November 23rd, 1894.

Smoking and drinking / by James Parton.

An examination of the essays Bacchus and Anti-Bacchus / by John MacLean.

Contrasts in drinking of alcoholic beverages: a tavern from 1553 is contrasted with a gin-palace of 1847, temperance with drunkenness, and luxury with poverty. Lithograph by Luke Limner (John Leighton).

Ashes to ashes : the history of smoking and health Symposium and Witness Seminar organized by the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine and the History of Twentieth Century Medicine Group on 26-27 April 1995 / edited by S. Lock, L.A. Reynolds and E.M. Tansey.

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Smoking and drinking / by James Parton.

An examination of the essays Bacchus and Anti-Bacchus / by John MacLean.

Contrasts in drinking of alcoholic beverages: a tavern from 1553 is contrasted with a gin-palace of 1847, temperance with drunkenness, and luxury with poverty. Lithograph by Luke Limner (John Leighton).

Ashes to ashes : the history of smoking and health Symposium and Witness Seminar organized by the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine and the History of Twentieth Century Medicine Group on 26-27 April 1995 / edited by S. Lock, L.A. Reynolds and E.M. Tansey.