Cure of Alcoholism, The
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- Cure of Alcoholism, The
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- 1913
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Cure of Alcoholism, The
Author: O'Malley Austin
Year: 1913
336 pages. Table of contents: CHAPTER I The physiology and pathology of alcoholism. The various alcoholic beverages, and alcoholic patent medicines. The action of ethylic alcohol on the circulation, respir- ation, digestion, muscular and mental energy, and the thoracic organs. Alcoholism and the infectious dis- eases 1 CHAPTER II The alcoholic insanities. Nature of the nervous systems. The marks of insanity. Symptoms common to various forms of alcoholic insanity. Delirium Tremens. Al- coholic melancholia, mania, persecutory insanity, and amnesia. Dipsomania. Korsakow's psychosis. . . 33 CHAPTER III Alcoholism and heredity. Exaggeration of the influence of heredity in morality. Parental alcoholism and physical degeneracy in offspring. Alcoholism and in- sanity. Racial alcoholic insanity. The special tend- ency to insanity in Irish alcoholics and the causes of this tendency. The influence of the American climate on northern Europeans 64 CHAPTER IV Idiocy, imbecility, crime, pauperism, occupation, and al- coholism. Legislative opposition to alcoholism. The treatment of alcoholism in English and American in- stitutions 107 CHAPTER V PAGE The physicalor medicaltreatment ofalcoholism. Th