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