Inebriety : its etiology, pathology, treatment and jurisprudence / by Norman Kerr.

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1888
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Credit: Inebriety : its etiology, pathology, treatment and jurisprudence / by Norman Kerr. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. Inebriety a Disease. PAGE Prevalence of Inebriety, i; Importance of early recognition, 2 ; Seldom recognised early enough, 3 ; Rarely recognised as a disease, 3; Is inebriety a disease? 5; Typical cases, 5; Ine- briety a true disease, 7; Inebriety in alcohol, opium, chloral, and other narcotics, 7; Pathological appearances in alcohol inebriety, 8 ; All drunkards not diseased, g ; Inebriety die- fined, 10 ; Drunkenness partly physical, 10 ; Physical origin in various classes of inebriates, 11; In idiots, and those endowed with deficient moral control, 11; In recurrent in- sanity, 11; In inebriate criminals, 11; In inebriety from alcohol poisoning, 12; In subjects of narcotic heredity, 12; Fortunately drunkards not all diseased . • • 13 CHAPTER II. Inebriety a Disease allied to Insanity. Insanity and inebriety physical diseases, the outcome of natural law, 15 ; Many cannot drink moderately from physical ina- bility, 16; Causes of insanity and inebriety similar, 16; Past history of insanity and inebriety alike, 17; Intoxica- tion insanity in brief, 18; Drunkenness voluntary, some-