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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...
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Family history and genealogical information about the descendants of William Patten who was born ca. 1615 in England. He married Mary (surname unknown) in England. They lived in Somerset Co., England and immigrated to America ca. 1636. William and Mary settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts and were the parents of six children. William died 10 December 1668. Descendants lived in Massachusetts, New York and elsewhere.