Pathological Description of Continued, Remittent, and Intermittent Drunkenness
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[We gladly avail ourselves of an opportunity afforded by the kindness of Mr. Turnbull of laying before our readers a translation of Salvatori's celebrated dissertation on Drunkenness?a dissertation little kuown in this country from the great scarcity and difficulty of access of the volume in which it originally appeared. This essay is of rare interest to the medical scholar, not only because in it habitual drunkenness was probably for the first time treated nosographically, but also on account of the singularly able and philosophical investigation of the subject, which Dr. Christison states is the ablest he has yet seen.* With Dr. Christison, " we have some doubt of the stability of the author's very numerous radical cures," and we have also " even
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