The treatment of alcoholic inebriety : read before the Northwestern Medical and Surgical Association, March 18, 1893, and before the American Association for the Study and Cure of Inebriety, March 23, 1893 / by Frederick Peterson.

  • Frederick Peterson
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1893
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Credit: The treatment of alcoholic inebriety : read before the Northwestern Medical and Surgical Association, March 18, 1893, and before the American Association for the Study and Cure of Inebriety, March 23, 1893 / by Frederick Peterson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INEBRIETY. J BY FREDERICK PETERSON, M.D., OF NEW YORK. There is no class of cases that comes under the care of the physician that presents greater difficulties in the way of treatment than that of sufferers from alcoholic inebriety. To the practitioner are brought such as are in the stage of alcoholic neurasthenia, such as present symptoms of acuter alcoholic condi¬ tions, such as have delirium tremens, such as are insane from the abuse of this poison, and such as exhibit actual organic lesions of the nervous system, like alcoholic neuritis and alcoholic pseudo-ataxia. Patients may come under his observation in any of these states, or in the intervals between paroxysmal outbreaks of the drink habit, when they may present no particular symptoms. He may be required to treat the nervous conditions of alcoholic excess, and there may be lesions of other than nervous viscera demanding his attention, like gastric disorder and cirrhosis and their sequelae. Thus, there are states for immediate attention, and there is the habit itself exacting his best judgment and skill in the way of eradication and prophylaxis. There is, therefore, a wide field for therapeutic applications of great vari¬ ety, but into all of this region it is not the purpose of the writer to venture. Leaving out the treatment
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