AN ESSAY

ON THF

NATURE. CAUSES, EFFECTS, AND CURE,

OF

INTEMPERANCE.

BY RALPH BARNES GRINDROD..

FIRST AMERICAN

FROM THE THIRD ENGLISH EDITION.

EDITED BY CHARLES A. LEE, A. M. M. D

"The land mourneth because of drunkenness."

HARTFORD:

PUBLISHED BY S. ANDRUS & SON

THIS WORK

IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED TO THE

OFFICERS AND MEMBERS OF

THE AMERICAN TEMPERANCE SOCIETIES,

WHOSE UNPARALLELED EXERTIONS

IN THE

CAUSE OF MORALS AND RELIGION,

AND WHOSE EFFORTS TO EXTERMINATE

THE

MOST FRUITFUL SOURCE OF HUMAN MISERY,

THE USE OF INTOXICATING LIQUORS,