Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856. Excerpt: ... ADDRESS OF DR. TURNER. Gentleman:--. It is our, purpose to lay before you the history and pathology of inebriety. We shall speak of its destructive influence upon nations and individuals, and present the method of treatment proposed by this Asylum. Inebriety is the first disease of which we have any record. It dates its existence from the birth of the grape, the formation of wine from which was one of the first discoveries of man. We find nothing in the medical records of the Egyptians to prove that it was recognized as a disease. Esculapius, Hippocrates, and Galen are likewise silent on the subject. Yet we have for the recorder of the pathology of inebriety the most renowned man of ancient or modern times. Solomon describes the malady in the most significant language. " At the last it biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder." Thus we have sacred history to establish the fact that inebriety was the most frightful and destructive disease then known; comparing it to the venomous bite of the serpent and the deadly sting of the adder, which have no specific--no cure. We are compelled to trace the influence of this disease in nations rather than individuals, and form our opinions from the facts of history which records the rise and fall of races and nations. When the seeds of this deadly malady were sown by the great men of Babylon, Egypt, Greece, and Rome, in their Bacchanalian feasts; then the greatness of these mighty nations began to decline, and their chosen people perished and passed away. Babylon, with all her glory and magnificence, fell into the hands of the Persians when her rulers were drunk with wine and her people maddened by the intoxicating bowl. 19 By Inebriety Egypt lost her ruler, the world her conqueror in the death of Alexander the...
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