The disease of inebriety from alcohol, opium, and other narcotic drugs : its etiology, pathology, treatment and medico-legal relations / Arranged and compiled by the American association for the study and cure of inebriety.

  • American Association for the Study and Cure of Inebriety.
Date:
1899
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Credit: The disease of inebriety from alcohol, opium, and other narcotic drugs : its etiology, pathology, treatment and medico-legal relations / Arranged and compiled by the American association for the study and cure of inebriety. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

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    The drink malady, its causes, cure and prevention, are practically an unoccupied field of medicine, and this work is offered as a guide and stimulus to farther study in this direction. These selections have been gathered from over five thousand pages of printed matter, published in the journal iiiid transactions, and are from papers which have not appeared elsewhere and hence will be new to most pliysi- cians. It will be evident to tlie reader that while the facts are very numerous and startling, and fully sustain the principles of the association, tliey are not yet sufficiently studied and generalized to be accepted as absolute truths. Tills volume brings the subject up to the frontier lines, and suggests that the possibility of restoring the inebriate and stamping out inebriety, is onlylimited by our want of knowledge of the laws and means to accomplish this end. It also suggests that a solution of this great problem of the forces and sources which develop the armies of the inebri- ates or halt and disband them, must be along the line of accurately observed facts and their meaning. The purpose of this work will be accomplished, if, in any way, it shall help on this pioneer work. T. D. Crothers, Secretary. Hartford, Conn. March, 1893.