The anatomy of drunkenness

Chapter 2: ADVERTISEMENT. TO THE FIFTH EDITION.

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The work examines the causes, varieties, and observable phenomena of inebriation, surveying alcohol and other intoxicating agents and how their effects vary with individual temperament and with the substance used. It offers physiological and pathological accounts of intoxication, treats sleep and related consequences, and contrasts the actions of opium and alcohol. Practical sections describe methods for managing a fit of drunkenness and for treating habitual inebriety, and consider judicial and social responses alongside temperance societies. Additional chapters discuss effects on nurses and children, circumstances in which liquors may be less harmful, and include pharmacological notes and tables.

ADVERTISEMENT.
TO THE FIFTH EDITION.

In preparing the present edition of the Anatomy of Drunkenness for the press, I have spared no pains to render the work as complete as possible. Some parts have been re-written, some new facts added, and several inaccuracies, which had crept into the former editions, rectified. Altogether, I am in hopes that this impression will be considered an improvement upon its predecessors, and that no fact of any importance has been overlooked or treated more slightly than it deserves.

R. M.

20th Sept. 1834.