Behold, the sin of alcohol! "The development of new theories about the action of alcohol on the body and mind appears to have been influenced by the now-discredited eighteenth- and nineteenth-century idea that the phenomenon of human combustion, spontaneous or not, was linked to spirit drinking."

Pam Lock

You might like my recent article with my colleague Iain Smith then, which mentions this and other medical and literary cases - I love this public battle too! 2025 - Addiction - Wiley Online Library share.google/08PlJQfWtAL4...