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Included in his Essays of Elia is a piece by Charles Lamb (1775-1834) entitled, "Confessions of a Drunkard." So realistic and subjective were its tone and mood that many contemporaries of the great essayist thought it was his own story. Accordingly, he was later compelled to repudiate its seeming biographical implications. Nonetheless, the following excerpts sound pretty clinical in his description of the alcoholic, his plea for tolerance and the remedy--abstinence.

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