Robert Macnish, a young Glasgow surgeon, examines drunkenness as a medical and social problem: its causes, its stages and how it varies with temperament and with the drink or drug involved, from wine and spirits to opium and ether. He describes delirium tremens and the diseases of the habitual drinker. Its treatments are those of 1834 and are not medical advice.
An early landmark in the study of alcoholism, of interest to historians of medicine. Download the free EPUB.