Alcoholism Gallery

English tourists promenading in the Tuileries Garden

English tourists promenading in the Tuileries Garden, Paris, 19th century. French cuirassiers, ladies in crinolines stroll in the gardens. Mr. Stubbs from Yorkshire makes fun of the vulgar Cockney grocer, John Jorrocks, who grabs his sword at the insult. Mr. Jorrocks renounces the acquaintance of the Yorkshireman. Handcoloured steel engraving after an illustration by Henry Thomas Alken from Robert Smith Surtees Jorrocks Jaunts and Jollities, Rudolph Ackermann, London, 1843

© Florilegius

Old Mrs Snooksons Husband view on his drinking ailment

"Well, how's your Husband, Mrs Snookson?" "O! E's very bad, poor ear E's such a martyr to Delerium Tremins." !!! Delirium tremens (Latin for "shaking frenzy", also referred to as The DTs, "the horrors", or "the shakes.") is an acute episode of delirium that is usually caused by withdrawal from alcohol, first described in 1813. Date: 1895

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

Barrack canteen interior, 1847

Interior of an army barrack canteen, 1847. An illustration provided to accompany an article in the Illustrated London News, advocating temperance and reform, and illustrating the "evils of canteens...sketched from life, in the precincts of the Horse Guards, presenting the abuse of the system with unexaggerated detail." Date: 1847

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans