A few years ago a pamphlet appeared from the pen of Dr. Sewall of Washington, on the pathology of drunkenness, with plates exhibiting the state of the drunkard’s stomach in different stages of disease. Among others is a plate representing the appearance of the stomach of a man who died of delirium tremens; and Dr. Sewall says, that it is a true representation of the state of the stomach in all these who die of this malady. This sweeping assertion is based upon nothing but his personal observation, which, it seems from his own account, was very limited. He speaks of having had _several_ opportunities of inspecting the stomach after death in such cases, and says that the appearances on dissection have been extremely uniform. How many he meant by the word ‘several’ I know not; but one thing is certain—that nothing short of _many_ observations could establish the fact, that the plate in question exhibits the true state of the stomach in _all_ cases of death by delirium tremens. Now what is the truth on this point? This question is not to be answered by what any _one_ man has found in ‘several,’ or even in many cases. It can be properly answered, only by taking the observations of many different physicians, who have had extensive opportunities of making examinations after death in this disease. The uniformity of appearances, spoken of by Dr. Sewall, we find, has not been observed by others; but the stomach has been found in various states in the different cases. Dr. Sewall infers from the appearances in his cases, that the opinion advocated by some, that delirium tremens has its seat in the stomach is correct. Even if such appearances were competent proof in regard to this point, which is by no means true, it would require a larger number of cases than can properly be included under the term ‘several,’ to establish the correctness of such a conclusion. It is worthy of remark here, that others, taking, like Dr. Sewall, the partial view of facts presented by a limited experience, but having their attention directed to another quarter, have located this disease in some other organ. Thus some have supposed its seat to be in the brain, and have based this opinion, as Dr. Sewall did his, upon what they found in examinations after death. The truth is that all the phenomena of this disease show, that is a peculiar affection of the nervous system, and not a local disease of any one organ. Now in the general disordered condition of the drunkard’s organs, this affection is of course liable to be complicated with various local diseases. And delirium tremens of itself alone is not apt to end fatally; but when death occurs, it is ordinarily the result of some local complaint united with this disease. Wherever this complaint happens to be,—in the stomach, or the liver, or the brain, or some other organ,—_there_ will be found on examination after death the greatest amount of disease. And a partial view of facts has often led