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Temuka Leader, Issue 2381, 12 July 1892, Page 4

The Evil of " Nipping."—Professor S i George Hunrphery, F. 11.5., in addressing the Cambridge Temperance Association recently (says the British Medical Journal), took occasion to protest against the common form of intemperance in drinking, which was short of drunkenness, but which, as it was general, was more prejudicial, and was doing more damage than actual drunkeness. This was the habit of " nipping." Taking a glass now, a glass then, and a glass often; in the morning (which was worefc of all), at the mid-day moal, in the afternoon, and m the evening. Even more than drunkeness, this was terribly damaging to the system ; it made men soddened, and was evinced in a general shakiness of the hand, sometimes of the step, and above all of the tongue ; in fact, a general shakiness of all the organs. The " nipper* " succumbed to slight accidents, slight illness, or slight shocks of any kind. Prick them, and the life, as it were, ran out of them. They say "My work is hard,,' and they took the very means which unfitted them for good and prolonged work. By tempeiance in drink, he meant that nothing should be taken whatever, under any condition, except at meals, and very little then. Those who could not be absolutely temperate and content with moderation, should become total abstainers,