Drunkenness / by George R. Wilson.

  • Wilson, George R. (George Robert)
Date:
1897
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Drunkenness / by George R. Wilson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    robust, or would the conditions which make for drunkenness only produce new forms of de- gradation ? TREATMENT OF THE ALCOHOLIC PREDISPOSITION. This last question appeals particularly to the physician, who feels that in suppressing drunkenness by coercion he is merely treating a symptom and not the essentia] malady. The first branch of the therapeutics of drunkenness, therefore, which demands our attention, is the preventive treatment to be applied to those who are constitutionally prone to the alcoholic habit. There is a large demand for therapeutics of this kind. Never a day passes in the practice of a physician who specialises in nervous and mental diseases, that does not bring before him one or more cases of serious illness that might have been prevented by judicious treatment in childhood. Most commonly the physician is consulted for “nervousness” or hysteria; but on every hand one may see men and women growing up to be moral failures, and sometimes living lives of habitual vice, who, under proper conditions, might have developed into useful
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