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Health of alcohol is first disputed in the U.S.

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Philadelphia doctor Benjamin Rush disputes the belief that alcohol is healthful, diagnosing drunkenness as a progressive disease. Rush is an early proponent of "the moral treatment," which is the ideology that the "insane" and "deviants" should be treated with kindness.