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The FIFTH EDITION, in Foolscap 8vo. Price 68. 

 Boards, of 



The Anatomy of Drunkenness; 



By Robert Macnish, Author of " The Philosophy of 

 Sleep," and Member of the Faculty of Physicians and 

 Surgeons of Glasgow. 



Contents. — Chap.l. Preliminary Observations. 2. Causes 

 of Drunkenness. 3. Phenomena of Drunkenness. 4. 

 Drunkenness modified by Temperament. 5. Drunkenness 

 modified by the inebriating Agent. 6. Enumeration of the 

 less common Intoxicating Agents. 7. Differences in the 

 Action of Opium and Alcohol. 8. Physiology of Drunken- 

 ness. 9. Method of curing the Fit of Drunkenness. 10. 

 Pathology of Drunkenness. 11. Sleep of Drunkards. 12. 

 Spontaneous Combustion of Drunkards. 13. Drunkenness 

 Judicially considered. 14. Method of curing the Habit of 

 Drunkenness. 15. Temperance Societies. 16. Advice t© 

 inveterate Drunkards. 17. Effects of Intoxicating Agents 

 on Nurses and Children. 18. Liquors not always hurtful. 



" This little book is evidently the production of a man of 

 genius. The style is singularly neat, terse, concise, and 

 vigorous, far beyond the reach of any ordinary mind; the 

 strain of sentiment is such as does infinite honour to the 

 Author's heart; and the observation of human life, by 

 which every page is characterized, speaks a bold, active, and 

 philosophical intellect. As a medical treatise it is excellent ; 

 and to those whu stand in need of advice and warning, it is 

 worth a hundred sermons." — Blackwood's Magazine. 



" If every man addicted to this dreadful vice could be 

 induced, in some lucid interval, to read this volume with 

 attention, it would go far to put him out of conceit with the 

 practice. If his own observation and experience had not 

 taught him what a complicated evil drunkenness is, this 

 volume would at least bring to his remembrance many things 

 which it is of the greatest^mportance he should know before 

 he is for ever ruined." — Entertaining Press, 



