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INDEX 



N 



Natural Selection, difficulty of prov- 

 ing, 25 ; objectors to, 38 



Neison, Mr F. G. P., 68 



Neo - Darwinism, 12; applied to 

 disease, 33 ; applied to alco- 

 holism, 94 



Nervous instability, 256 



New York, 149 



New Zealand, 154 



North Europeans, alcoholic history 

 of, 103 



Norway, 157 



Oddfellows, death-rate of, 68-9 

 Opium, 127 ; its use in India, 131, 



134 ; in China, 137 ; in Burma, 



138 

 Ormondville, New Zealand, 154 

 Oyster, memory, 227 



Pangenesis, theory of, 206 



Parallel between diseases and nar- 

 cotics, 127 



Parasites, 28 



Pigeon, wild blue, 57 



Plague, 33 



Piatt, Dr Ferdinand, 197 



Polynesians, 23 



Poole, Surgeon-Major, 278 



Potential drunkards, 86 



Portuguese Empire and disease, 50 



Poulton, Professor, 38 



Prohibition, total, 146-52 ; partial, 

 152 



Purim, feast of, 99 



Puritans, temperance of the, 121 



Qualitative development, 219 

 Quatrefage, De, 237 



R 



Reason, definition of, 224 



Receptivity, mental, evolution of, 

 227 



Rechabites, death-rate of, 68-9 



Ridge, Dr J., 65 



Reid, G. Archdall, 280 



Religion, mental effects of, 236 



Reproduction of lost parts, 214 



Retrogression, 51, 242 ; alcoholic, 

 123, 164 ; in absence of selec- 

 tion, 53 ; difficulty of observing 

 in wild nature, 54 ; easily 

 observed in cultivated plants 

 and tame animals, 55 ; due to 

 atavism, 59 



Reversed Selection, 245 



Reversion, action of, 248 



Rose, Dr A. T., 139 



Royal Commission on opium, 132 ; 

 on contagious disease, 185, 

 270, 271 



Rowntree and Sherwell, "The 

 Temperance Problem,'' 146, 

 157 



Safety valves for drunkards, 153 

 Salisbury, Marquis of, 38 

 Samuelson, " History of Drink," 



104-6 

 Sanitation, limits of, 181 

 Saprophytes, 28 

 Savages, drinking habits of, 107, 



115, 117 

 Scarlet fever, 33 



