Meeting in Newburyport debates brandy for a sick man
At a Newburyport gathering a controversial view was aired that it would be better for a sick man to die than be saved by the brandy prescribed for him. The man who took the brandy attended the meeting, and was described as highly unpopular with his neighbors.
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