THE ANATOMY OF DRUNKENNESS. SIXTH EDITION. THE ANATOMY OF DRUNKENNESS. BY ROBERT MACNISH, AUTHOR OF “THE PHILOSOPHY OF SLEEP,” AND MEMBER OF THE FACULTY OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS OF GLASGOW. SIXTH EDITION. GLASGOW:—W. R. M’PHUN, PUBLISHER; N. H. COTES, 139, CHEAPSIDE, LONDON. MDCCCXXXVI. Glasgow:—E. Khull, Printer to the University. TO DAVID M. MOIR, ESQ. SURGEON, MUSSELBURGH, THIS WORK IS INSCRIBED, WITH EVERY SENTIMENT OF ADMIRATION, BY HIS SINCERE FRIEND, ROBERT MACNISH. ADVERTISEMENT. TO THE FIFTH EDITION. In preparing the present edition of the ANATOMY OF DRUNKENNESS for the press, I have spared no pains to render the work as complete as possible. Some parts have been re-written, some new facts added, and several inaccuracies, which had crept into the former editions, rectified. Altogether, I am in hopes that this impression will be considered an improvement upon its predecessors, and that no fact of any importance has been overlooked or treated more slightly than it deserves. R. M. _20th Sept. 1834._ CONTENTS. PAGE CHAPTER I. Preliminary Observations, 15 CHAPTER II. Causes of Drunkenness, 28 CHAPTER III. Phenomena of Drunkenness, 36 CHAPTER IV. Drunkenness Modified by Temperament, 52 CHAPTER V. Drunkenness Modified by the Inebriating Agent, 61 CHAPTER VI. Enumeration of the Less Common Intoxicating Agents, 98 CHAPTER VII. Differences in the Action of Opium and Alcohol, 106 CHAPTER VIII. Physiology of Drunkenness, 111 CHAPTER IX. Method of Curing the Fit of Drunkenness, 120 CHAPTER X. Pathology of Drunkenness, 132 CHAPTER XI. Sleep of Drunkards, 170 CHAPTER XII. Spontaneous Combustion of Drunkards, 175