INDEX.

Abbas the Great, his edict, 200

Alcohol the intoxicating principle of all liquors, 61

its action differs from that of opium, 106

Alexander the Great died of drunkenness, 22

Amurath IV. made smoking a capital offence, 81

Ardent Spirits, drunkenness modified by, 61

varieties of, 26, 63

Armstrong, Dr., his remarks on the disease of the brain, 141

Arrack a spirituous liquor long known in the East, 20

Balfour, Mr. Alexander, case communicated by, 214

Bangue possesses intoxicating properties, 98

Bardolph, his nose, 144

Barrow, Mr., his remarks on tobacco, 83

Beckon Medical Jurisprudence, extracts from, 194, 195

Beecher, Dr., his Sermons on Intemperance, 156, 255

Beer known to the Egyptians, 19

in the interior of Africa, 19

Belladonna, 100

Bitters often dangerous remedies, 139

Bladder, state of, 142

Bligh, Captain, his privations, 247

Blood and breath, state of, 142

Bonosus, hanged himself in a fit of despair, 23

Brain, state of, 140

Brande, Mr., his Table, 260

Brandy, 20, 26, 63

Brodie, Mr., his experiments on tobacco, 83

opinion regarding the absorption of Alcohol, 108

Broomley, Mr., his remedy for drunkenness, 123

Bunbury, his caricature of the “Long Story,” 57

Caldwell, Dr., on the cure of drunkenness, 218

Camphor possesses intoxicating properties, 103

Carbonic acid possesses intoxicating properties, 104

Cardinal Santa Crocé introduced tobacco into Italy, 80

Carnaro, extract from, 155

Catherine de Medicis the inventor of Snuff, 80

Catherine I. addicted to the use of tokay, 239

Chardin, extract from his Travels, 75

Chewing, 88

Children, effects of liquors on, 150, 243

Claret, the most wholesome of wines, 239

Clery, 104

Clutterbuck, Dr., his opinion of delirium tremens, 166

Cocculus Indicus, 99

Coffee useful in poisoning from opium, 129

Coke, Sir Edward, his judicial opinion, 190

Cold, effects of intense, 105

Coleridge, Mr., his case, 93

Collinson on Lunacy, extract from, 195

Combustion, spontaneous, 175

Commercial travellers addicted to intemperance, 31

Congee the drink of the natives of India, 220

Corpulency, 152

Darnel, 104

Darwin, Dr., averse to blooding in drunkenness, 121

his account of psora ebriorum, 146

opposes the sudden discontinuance of liquors, 198

Delirium tremens, 159

Demosthenes used cold water as a stimulus, 34

Desgenettes, observation by, 221

Digitalis, 99

Don Gio Maria Bertholi, case of, 181

Double vision, cause of, 114

Dreams, 171

Drunkard, choleric, 57

melancholy, 54

nervous, 57

periodical, 58

phlegmatic, 55

sanguineous, 52

surly, 55

Drunkards, sleep of, 170

spontaneous combustion of, 175

advice to inveterate, 236

Drunkenness, causes of, 28

modified by temperament, 52

modified by the inebriating agent, 61

physiology of, 111

method of curing the fit of, 120

pathology of, 132

judicially considered, 190

method of curing the habit of, 197

Dupuy, M., experiment by, 123

Ears, ringing in the, cause of, 116

Eason, Rebecca, inquest on her body, 79

Edgar, Professor, his account of Temperance Societies, 233

anecdote by, 253

Edgeworth, Mr., his case, 93

Eldon, Lord, case cited by, 195

Elevation of spirits, cause of, 116

Emaciation, 151

English regiment, anecdote of, 125

Epilepsy, 150

Ethers possess intoxicating properties, 104

Eyes, state of, 143

Flushing, cause of, 116

Fontenelle used coffee as a stimulus, 34

Gin, 25, 63

Good, Dr. Mason, a believer in spontaneous combustion, 186

Gordon, Duchess of, used opium, 72

Gout, 147

Grace Pitt, case of, 180

Grog, origin of the term, 238

Hair, state of, 146

Hales, Judge, his remarks on drunkenness, 167

rejects the plea of drunkenness, 191

Haller used cold water as a stimulus, 34

Hammer, Von, extract from his history of the Assassins, 101

Hannibal’s army ruined by intemperance, 22

Heart, palpitation of, 149

Heat and flushing, cause of, 116

Hemlock, 98

Hernandez de Toledo introduced tobacco into Europe, 80

Hibiscus Saldarissa, 27

Hislop, Sir Thomas, fact stated by, 220

Hobbes used tobacco as a stimulus, 34

Hop, 99

Hunter, Dr., experiments by, 243

Hyoscyamus, 101

Hysteria, 149

Inflammations, 147

Innocent, Pope, renewed Pope Urban’s bull, 81

James I., his “Counterblaste to Tobacco,” 82

Johnson, Dr., used tea as a stimulus, 34

Kain, Dr., recommends tartar emetic for the cure of habitual drunkenness, 216

Kaimes, Lord, fact related by, 71

Kidneys, state of, 141

Kinglake, Dr., his case, 95

Kinninmouth, Patrick, tried for blasphemy and adultery, 193

Langsberg, Matthew, his saying, 23

Leopard’s-bane, 98

Lewis, William, a great ale drinker, 69

Liquors, method of curing drunkenness from, 120

cannot always be suddenly discontinued with safety, 198

not always hurtful, 246

Liver, state of, 133

M’Donough, William, tried for murder, 194

Mackenzie, Sir George, says that the plea of drunkenness is never received in extenuation of crime, 191

Madame Millet, case of, 184

Madness, 157

Mahomet forbade wine to his followers, 20

Malt liquors, drunkenness modified by, 66

Mary Clues, case of, 177

Masurer, M., discovered the virtues of acetate of ammonia in drunkenness, 122

Mead the favourite drink of the Saxons, 19

Melancholy, 156

Mithridates, his body powerfully resisted poisons, 78

Montesquieu, quotations from, 16, 70, 221

Mosley, Dr., his observations on the effect of drinking cold water in the tropics, 222

Nepenthes, 27

Nervii refused to drink wine, 22

Newton used tobacco as a stimulus, 34

Nightmare, 172

Nitrous oxide, 131

drunkenness modified by, 89

North, Dr., his remarks on convulsions of children, 242

Nurses and children, effects of intoxicating agents on, 241

Odoherty, Morgan, his advice to drunkards, 240

Old age, premature, 154

Opium, drunkenness modified by, 70

used by the late Duchess of Gordon, 72

its action differs from that of alcohol, 106

method of curing drunkenness from, 126

Opium-Eater, English, his “Confessions,” 70, 76

Orfila, M., his experiments, 106, 129

Palm wine, 103

Paris and Fonblanque, extract from their Medical Jurisprudence, 176

Paris, Dr., excerpt from his Pharmacologia, 257

Peganum Harmala, 27

Perspiration, state of, 143

Pitcairn, Dr., and the highland chieftain, 213

Plugging, 88

Porter, 26, 67

Portland powder, 140

Psora ebriorum, 146

Punch, 237

Quakers, longevity of, 151, 155

Raleigh, Sir Walter, introduced tobacco into England, 81

Rollo, Dr., fact stated by, 220

Rum, 26, 63

Ryan, Dr., his opinion of delirium tremens, 166

Sack of Shakspeare supposed to have been sherry, 66

Saffron, 104

Schubert, extract from his Travels in Sweden, 195

Shakspeare, extracts from, 144, 153

Sinclair, Sir John, his remark on ale, 252

Skin, state of, 145

Sleep of Drunkards, 170

Sleep-walking, 17

Sleep-talking, 173

Smith, Dr. Gordon, a believer in spontaneous combustion, 187

Smoking, 86

Snuffing, 84

Spartans held ebriety in abhorrence, 22

Spirits, their adulteration, 24

their varieties, 25, 63

Spurzheim’s opinion of the sudden discontinuance of liquors, 198

Staggering and stammering, causes of, 115

Stanhope, Lord, his remarks on Snuffing, 84

Sterility, 150

Stomach, state of, 136

Tartar Emetic, use of, 216

Temperament, drunkenness modified by, 52

Temperance Societies, 223

Thackrah, his remarks on the intemperate habits of commercial travellers, 32

Tobacco, drunkenness modified by, 80

Tobacco, method of curing drunkenness from, 129

Toddy, 237

Tremors, 148

Trotter, Dr., averse to blooding in drunkenness, 121

his advice called in question, 198

Typhus fever, delirium of, sometimes mistaken for drunkenness, 126

Ulcers, 156

Urban VIII. excommunicated snuffers, 81

Vertigo, cause of, 112

Vinegar, its properties, 125, 128

Voltaire used coffee as a stimulus, 34

Walcheren fever, effects of spirits and smoking on, 225

Whisky, 26, 63

Wines, their adulteration, 24

drunkenness modified by, 65

Wolf’s-bane, 99

THE END.

GLASGOW: EDWARD KHULL, PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY.