Excerpt from An Address Delivered Before the Massachusetts Agricultural Society: At the Brighton Cattle Show, October 17th, 1821 It is a fact, stated on the proper official authority, that, during the last year, of 87 patients admitted into the Hospital for the Insane at New York, the insanity of 27 was caused by the intemperate use of ardent spirits. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.