Excerpt from The Pathology of Drunkenness: A View of the Operation of Ardent Spirits in the Production of Disease; Founded on Original Observation, and ResearchSistency, must necessarily be a sophist, till his fate convict him of his folly, that disproof which he could bring against any single part of our argument would be urged as availing against the whole, and we should but secure to him an appearance of triumph, by an overstrained effort to convince and to deter.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.