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[TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT]. The Declaration of Seventy-Five Physicians of Boston. [Boston: Ford & Damrell, Temperance Press, for the Boston Society for the Promotion of Temperance, 1832]. Printed engraved broadside on white paper. Approximately 409 x 286 mm. Foxed, edgeworn with some light chipping, one horizontal and one vertical crease, black soil marks at lower left corner. Rare early Temperance broadside: “They declare that ‘ardent spirit, as a drink is never useful for men in health,’ and furnish the annexed certificate to be seen and read of all men… About fifty millions of dollars, it is estimated, ar annually expended in this country, for this poisonous liquid, which is not only unnecessary, but the direct cause of nine tenths of all of the pauperism, crime, wretchedness and woe, which degrade and afflict our fellow-men… They speak what they do know, and if all other temperance men are ‘insane and fanatics,’ they are in their sober senses, and were so when they signed the annexed opinion…”