Methomania : a treatise on alcoholic poisoning / by Albert Day ; with an appendix by Horatio R. Storer.

  • Day, Albert.
Date:
1867
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    PEEFACE.. In offering this little volume to the public, I do not intend it to take the place of more elaborate works on Alcoholismus, which have from time to time been given to the world by the best writers on medical science. These few pages are suggested by the experience of more than ten years' constant observa- tion of the effects of alcohol upon the human econ- omy. I have had under my care over two thousand cases of inebriety, usually in its worst forms ; of this number, more than four hundred suffered from what is called Delirium Tremens, all of which cas6s have been under my own observation from the beginning of the attack to the end. I have, for the love of my race, observed with critical care the effects of intoxi- cants upon the mind ; and I cannot refrain from rais- ing a warning voice, feeble as it may be, against a habit which permeates all society, from the highest [3]