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The SIXTH EDITION, in Foolscap 8vo. Price 6s. boards, of
The Anatomy of Drunkenness;
By Robert Macnish, Member of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.
Contents:—Chap. 1. Preliminary Observations. 2. Causes of Drunkenness. 3. Phenomena of Drunkenness. 4. Drunkenness modified by Temperament. 5. Drunkenness modified by the inebriating agent. 6. Enumeration of the less common intoxicating agents. 7. Differences in the Action of Opium and Alcohol. 8. Physiology of Drunkenness. 9. Method of Curing the Fit of Drunkenness. 10. Pathology of Drunkenness. 11. Sleep of Drunkards. 12. Spontaneous Combustion of Drunkards. 13. Drunkenness Judicially considered. 14. Method of Curing the Habit of Drunkenness. 15. Temperance Societies. 16. Advice to Inveterate Drunkards. 17. Effects of Intoxicating Agents on Nurses and Children. 18. Liquors not always hurtful.
“We are happy to announce a fifth edition of this most useful and intelligent work. The author, Mr. Robert Macnish, has done more service to the cause of sobriety, by describing in this book the lamentable results of immoderate indulgence in intoxicating fluids, than all the Temperance Societies in England. In fact, if Mr. Buckingham and his fellow-twaddlers of the celebrated drunken committee, instead of recommending absurd and impracticable legal enactments for the prevention of drunkenness, had prevailed on parliament to grant a sum of money for the dissemination of Macnish’s ‘Anatomy,’ they would have taken the most effectual means to check an evil which is really of a sad and devastating character. We remember once hearing a worthy gentleman advise an unhappy infidel to read Bishop Watson’s reply to Tom Paine’s Age of Reason, remarking, ‘if you study that book, Sir, you cannot be an unbeliever.’ Without seeking to weaken the force of the good Christian’s injunction, we say to all who are in danger of contracting the truly horrible habit of intoxication, read Macnish on Drunkenness.”—London Weekly Despatch.