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Excerpt from Inebriety a Clinical Treatise on the Etiology, Symptomology, Neurosis, Psychosis and Treatment; And the Medico-Legal Relations The alcoholic question is positively one of the greatest medical and social science problems confronting the civiliza tion of to - day. This is clearly evident from the wide spread efforts and activities of societies, churches, political parties, humanitarians, philanthropists and scientists to overthrow or control the evils from this source; and from the intense interest in the various efforts, ways and means of prevention and cure. Every sociological and scientific study of degeneration and disease reveals the magnitude of the alcoholic influence, and its intimate relations to individuals and society, and its destructive effects on the social, hygienic and physio-l logical development of the race. Inebriety was regarded as a disease centuries ago, long before insanity was thought to be other' than a moral dis order, and yet the studies and literature up to recent times have reversed this. Inebriety is considered a voluntary vice and moral evil, and insanity a disease. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.