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This book tells the story of the huge addiction treatment industry which flourished in the United States between 1890 and the advent of Prohibition in 1920. The story begins in Russia in 1886, where a number of doctors discovered a relatively effective pharmacological treatment for alcoholism. Although this Russian discovery was published in countless major English language medical journals, it was entirely ignored by the US addiction experts of the day, who eschewed pharmacological treatments, and instead preferred to lock people up in inebriate asylums where they could be subjected to religious coercion. However, an obscure railroad physician and patent medicine salesman named Leslie E. Ke...
Peter Gunnarson Rambo, son of Gunnar Petersson, was born in about 1612 in Hisingen, Sweden. He came to America in 1640 and settled in Christiana, New Sweden (now Delaware). He married Brita Mattsdotter 7 April 1647. They had eight children. He died in 1698. HIs daughter, Gertrude Rambo, was born 19 October 1650. She married Anders Bengtsson. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, North Carolina and Ohio.
George (Jury) Waldenmeyer was born before 1720 in Germany. He was the son of Johan Georg Waldenmaier and Anna Barbara Mehrer. George died 25 July 1796 in Dutchess, New York, and was buried 1796 in Rhinebeck, New York. He married Margaretha Bard about 1744. She was born before 14 October 1811 in Ghent, Columbia County, New York. Their children were John Johannes/Nans (Walden Meyers) Waltermire (1745-1821), Elisabetha Waltermire (1747-1800/1803) , Catharine Waltermire (born 14 July 1752), Jacob Waltermire (1754-1813), Barbara Waltermire (1755-1820), Michael W. Waltermire (1760-1813), and David Waltermire 1762-1854). Descendants lived mostly in New York state and Connecticut.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
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