Methomania; a treatise on alcoholic poisoning / With an appendix by Horatio R. Storer.

  • Albert Day
Date:
1867
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Methomania; a treatise on alcoholic poisoning / With an appendix by Horatio R. Storer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    APPENDIX. BY PROF. H. K. STOKER, M.D., OF BOSTON. My friend, Dr. Day, has requested me to add a word to those he has said in the previous pages. This courtesy of his I presume to he owing to the pleasant personal relations I held to him, as an assistant instructor in the Med- ical School of Harvard University, during a portion of his pupilage, and the many conver- sations we then had together upon the med- ical, medico-legal, and social aspects of the dread disease to whose cure he is now devoting his life. Be this as it may, I take pleasure in acknowledging alike the excellence of the treatise he has written, its strictly philosophi- cal spirit, the practical influence it must have upon the community, and, above all, the truly scientific manner in which ebriety and its ef- [55]