Around the middle of the nineteenth century a young physician named J. Edward Turner decided to devote his life to the treatment of inebriety. (religion-online.org)
In the middle of the nineteenth century this dream was considered impossible. (religion-online.org)
The modern world is well aware of the rapid borrowing of occidental culture by the Japanese after the opening of Japan to world commerce by Commodore Perry in the middle of the nineteenth century. (religion-online.org)