Eleven years a drunkard, or, The life of Thomas Doner: having lost both arms through intemperance, he wrote this book with his teeth as a warning to others

He lost both arms to drink, then wrote his own warning with the pen gripped in his teeth. Thomas Doner's temperance testimony is confession rather than sermon: eleven years of intemperance recounted by the man who paid the whole bill for them, addressed plainly to anyone still convinced he can stop whenever he chooses to.