J LAKER 



OR THE ^UICK AND 

 THE DEAD 



FROM the records of many cases of alco- 

 holism, the strong fact is elicited that al- 

 ways in the individual, when at recurring 

 periods an excess of stimulant causes a 

 striking change in the mentality and personality, 

 yet each time are the same symptoms produced. 

 It matters little how many years have elapsed 

 between the occurrence of such sprees, alcohol 

 in any form will give rise only to well-marked 

 peculiarities of sensation, motion, speech, halluci- 

 nations, and irritative nervous disturbances. I 

 crave pardon of the reader for dipping thus into 

 professional experience, and do so only in order to 

 bring out the thought, that if men are thus domi- 

 nated by abnormal conditions, so in their turn and 

 in their own way are fish influenced by the state 

 of the waters, the methods of capture, the lure 

 used, and the season of the year. No better illus- 

 tration occurs to me than the statements which 

 follow, showing how utterly diflferent is the action 



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