Just in time for the festive season
The Appendix has put together a post of anecdotes and images that should act as a cautionary tale to those who are tempted to indulge in a little too much holiday cheer.
Samuel Clarke warned of a number of violent fates for drunks (eight of them pictured here) in his 1682 book
A Warning-piece to All Drunkards and Health-Drinkers:
Has anyone ever told you that you turn into a swine when you've been drinking? Thomas Heywood,
Philocothomista, or the Drunkard, Opened, Dissected and Atomized (London: 1635).
Rush’s “Moral Thermometer” of the effects of different forms of drink, ending with the deadliest, “Pepper in Rum.”Wikimedia Commons:
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