Desultory notes on the origin, uses and effects of ardent spirit. By a physician. [Six lines from Memoirs of the Duke of Sully]

Philadelphia: printed by Adam Waldie, Carpenter Street, 1834. 8vo, pp. 126; last gathering toned, light foxing; removed from binding, wrappers wanting; all else very good. "A friend placed in the hands of the writer of these notes three questions, proposed by the Pennsylvania State Temperance Society, united with several benevolent individuals, for a dissertation on the origin, effects and use of ardent spirit ... The observations which are now offered, result from the consideration of these topics" (Preface). American Imprints 24151.