Why did the Temperance Movement start?

Temperance began in the early 1800s as a movement to limit drinking in the United States. ... Alcohol abuse was rampant, and temperance advocates argued that it led to poverty and domestic violence. Some of these advocates were in fact former alcoholics themselves.

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john hunter was a scottish surgeon, he was a early advocate of careful observation and scientific method in medicine,

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