1847-48 THE RECHABITE MAGAZINE. Temperance, Hydrotherapy, Early Anti-Alcohol Publication.

Rather scarce full year of the teetotal publication of the "Independent Order of Rechabites." They were one of the earliest and best organized of the temperance movements in England [1835], and later [1842] in the United States. After the American Civil War, their work would take on a uniquely American flair with the rise of the bar smashing pub brawling, Carrie Nation. 

Their organization is evident in the publication, which includes medical, moral, theological, and pragmatic approaches to the subject, including explorations of why particular classes and people are more prone to alcoholism, the various reasons for avoiding alcohol, the treatment of alcoholism, etc., 

This copy was the property of William E. Savage of Detroit, Michigan [1867] who it seems was for some time the editor of the Western Home Journal.

No copies on the market at the time of cataloguing. 

[Independent Order of Rechabites]. The Rechabite Magazine, for 1847 & 1848. Published Under the Superintendence of the Executive Council of the Independent Order of Rechabites. Manchester. William Grimshaw. 1848. 386pp.

Contents include: The Power of Wine by Miss Alice Cary; Movement for Temperance and Education; Teetotalism at Leamington and Warwick; Original Music Composed for the British League of Juvenile Abstainers; The Hydropathic Infirmary at Ramsgate; A Temperance Sketch by William Cauldwell; A Teetotal Lecture in a Public House; The Advent of Alcohol; To Sea-Faring Men [on the drunkenness of sailors]; How to Become Acquainted with the Evils of Intemperance; The Development of Teetotalism; How Would the Apostle Paul Act?; The Sober Man; Report of the Love and Unity Tent No. 115 at Birmingham; Teetotalism in Belfast Ireland; The Last Warning; The Teetotal Pledge; On New and Old Wines [in Scripture]; The Pipe and the Cup; The Wife's Appeal - A Temperance Song; The Wreck of a Man; The Secret of Unhappy Homes; Alcohol and the Production of Crime; In Veno Veritas - In Wine there is Truth; The End of the Wine Bibber; An Old Mode of Curing Drunkenness Revived; Teetotalism Taught in the Scriptures?; The Sparkling Cup; Intemperance and Slavery; Alcohol and Murder!; Observations on Hydropathy - Its Rise and Progress by David Ross; Dram-Drinking Ministers and Dram-Selling Members; Observations on the Effects of Drunkenness Together with its Remedy which if Applied must be Successful; Report of the Conference of Teetotal Ministers of the Gospel; Sheffield Teetotalers' Asylum; Barrack Canteens for Soldiers; The Right Course with the Inebriate; Teetotalism and the Church; The Bottle; The Use of Alcohol Unnatural; The Dialogue - Or Total Abstinence Discussed; A Satirical Article on Naming a Pub with Suggesting Ranging from Little Hell to The Felon's College - The Devil's Garrison - The Assassin's Nook etc.,; A Singular Hallucination; Progress of the Abstinence Cause in Ireland; The Cholera - Who are its Victims?; Infant Disease and Morality; Teetotalism and its Relation to Christianity Physiologically Considered; The Cost of Intemperance; The Sacrament [Unfermented Communion]; How to Make Sacramental Wine; Persecution of Teetotalers; John Wesley's Opinions; British Females; The Causes of Intemperance [series]; The Working Classes the Great Supporters of the Drinking System; Popular Errors Respecting Intoxicating Liquors; All Hell is Rejoicing, etc., 

Fair only. Heavily rubbed and worn as shown; front board very tender; contents handled but solid; some pencil marks throughout. Complete and very sound textually. 

Relevant to the study of: Prohibition; Alcoholics Anonymous; Addiction; Water Cure; Hydrotherapy; Spousal Abuse; Poverty and Addiction; etc.