Spirits ardent

Around that same time, the growing problem of alcohol abuse began to be confronted by the pioneers of modern medicine. In the United States, Benjamin Rush published an Inquiry into the Effects of Ardent Spirits on the Human Body and Mind. He referred to the intemperate use of distilled spirits as a disease, not a moral failing. He also estimated that at least 4,000 people a year were dying due to alcohol abuse—this at a time when the nation s population was only about 6 million. 

In his Inquiry into the Effects of Ardent Spirits on the Human Body and... 

John Kobler, Ardent Spirits (New York G. P. Putnam s Sons, 1973). 

Victorian age, had for many ardent spirits taken the place of orthodox religion. We found her unyielding in her demands that we should put academic tasks before all other interests, that we should maintain the tradition of the earnest pioneers, who never for one moment allowed themselves to forget their goal of proving and demonstrating that no distinction can be drawn between the intellectual powers of men and women, once they are offered similar educational opportunities.44 ... 

Methylated spirit is ethyl alcohol containing sufficient wood spirit to render it unfit for the manufacture of ardent spirits, by reason of the dia-guating odor and taste which crude wood alcohol owes to certain empy-reumatic pitxlucts which it contains. Spirits so treated are not subje to the heavy duties imposed upon ordinary alcohol, and are. therefor, largely used in the arts and for the preservation of anatomical preparations. It contains one-ninth of its bulk of wood naphtha. 

IV.—Those prepared by the distillation of some fermented saccharine liquid—ardent spirits,... 

Caxmlnatiwes. Mcdicinea that allay flatulency and spasmodic pains. Among tho principal carminatives are aniseed, cara way-seed, cardamoms, cassia, cinnamon, gin-gcr. peppermint and the peppers inclnding ardent spirits and most aromatic essences ana Unctitrcs. 

In the process of manufacture of ardent spirits the fusel oil ae- cumulates in great part in the still, but much of it distils over,. and is more or less completely removed from the product by the process of defuselation. 

By a curious refinement upon the spirit of republican jealousy, we are even taught to apprehend danger from the militia itself in the hands of the federal government. It is observed that select corps may be formed, composed of the young and ardent, who may be rendered subservient to... 

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