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HENCE INSANITY
A medical man, who has travelled extensively for the purpose of studying human development, asserts that two of the greatest evils in the world are over-indulgence in alcohol and tobacco. “I am not speaking as a moralist, but as a physician,” he said. “The strain of modern life is leading more and more to its victims flying for relief to alcohol and tobacco, and I believe that these are tremendous factors in bringing about conditions favourable to insanity. I have seen cases of lunacy directly caused by excessive cigarette smoking, and the insanity born of alcoholism is well known to doctors. It is not the pressure of modern life that breaks us down. It is the drugs and stimulants we take to mitigate its effect.”
Camperdown Chronicle, 1933
The light of the summer moon
