[370] Dr. Anstie’s two works, “Stimulants and Narcotics,” and “The Use of Wines in Health and Disease.” See Also Dr. T. P. Lucas on “The True Action and Physiological Results of Alcohol,” pp. 140, 141 (a strong temperance work); “On Chronic Alcoholic Intoxication,” p. 9, by W. Marcet, M.D., F.R.S. (Churchill); “The Effects of Alcohol on the Nervous System,” by Dr. Hammond in “The Psychological and Medico-Legal Journal,” July 1874, New York. The records of discussions amongst guardians of the poor where objection has been made to the use of beer as an article of diet also tend in the same direction. At a recent meeting of the West Derby Board, for example, the medical officers, one of whom is a total abstainer, distinctly expressed their determination to continue administering alcohol as a medicine. [371] See the Report of the Temperance Hospital, “Daily News,” May 31, 1878. [372] Richardson’s Researches on Alcohol, p. 6. [373] Miller’s Alcohol, its Place and Power, p. 92. [374] Pope’s Homer’s Odyssey, book ix. [375] Tom Moore. [376] Anstie, Uses of Wine in Health and Disease, p. 11. [377] Ibid., p. 40. [378] Morewood, p. 339. [379] Rev. D. Burns, to whom the author is indebted for some of these particulars. [380] Morewood, p. 340. [381] Ibid., p. 341. [382] Third Report, p. 25, Q. 8242. [383] Readers who are desirous of pursuing the question of temperance societies will find a vast amount of information in Graham’s “Temperance Guide.” London: Pitman, &c. [384] Speech of the Duke of Westminster, Free Trade Hall, Manchester. [385] The Licensing Act 1872, Section 13. [386] Report of the Liverpool Police, 1877. [387] See especially the evidence of Mr. Robinson (Chief Constructor), Second Report p. 117. INDEX. A Abbot Sampson, actions of, 127, 131. Abbots, vices of, 144. Aberdare, Lord, on drinking amongst the working classes, 176, 177. Abstinence total, not recommended by ancient Chinese, 20. of Buddhist priests, 27, 28. of Mohammedans, 53. not universal, 55. in Koom, in Persia, 55. of Nazarites during noviciate, 62. of Rechabites, 63. of Lacedæmonians, 81. amongst native Americans in the United States, 222. of English temperance societies, 241. Addison, at Button’s club, 156. on intemperance in his day, 164. Adulteration, of wine, materials used for, in ancient Rome, 89. in Germany, 90. of beer with salt, in England, 249. of spirits with water, in England, 250. Agreement to hold ales, 135. Agromanyus (Ahriman) drunkenness supposed to be the work of, 50. Alcohol, first obtained by Villeneuve, 159. table of percentage in various intoxicating drinks, 160. Ales, agreement to hold, 135. “bid,” 134, 136. “bride,” 134. “church,” 134, 136. “clerk,” 136. held in churches, 135. forbidden to be held in churches, 137. “help,” 134. Whitsun and Easter, 134. Ale-wives of mediæval England, 139.