Excerpt from The Mighty Destroyer Displayed, in Some Account of the Dreadful Havock Made by the Mistaken Use as Well as Abuse of Distilled Spirituous Liquors
So, that by a mpdell computation ther confumed in one year, at leafl twenty-five pounds in rum. This exceflive' drinking of rum, ' as it has flain its thonfands, is likely to deflroy ite'ran thoufands, for by its corrofive and fiery propent'yfiit debauches the Romach, dries up. The radical'nifmi ture, poifons the juices, inflames the blood; un fheaths the bovt'els, debilitates the nerves and Rupiv.
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