ADVERTISEMENT. THE Directors of the Scottish Temperance League, anxious to have a Work of high authority on the Medical view of the Temperance question, made application to Professor Miller to prepare a treatise on the subject, who most cordially complied with their request. In publishing the Work, the Board feel it their duty to state that the learned Author presented the MS. as a gift to the League, only stipulating that it should be published at such a price as would bring it within the reach of all classes. i VI. AS A SUPPORT IN LABOR OF THE BODY INTRODUCTION. Drunkenness owns many a cause, and calls for many cure. Many things are to be done, and many men are needed to do them. The principle of "division of labor" is fully recognised in this matter. One of the most obvious causes of drunkenness consists in the strange drinking customs of the people. Strong drink not only forms a customary part of their ordinary diet, but whenever any peculiar occasion emerges -be it of grief or sorrow, business or pleasure additional amount of strong drink must forthwith be consumed, by all and sundry, if the entertainer would escape censure or contempt. an Sensible men have come to see that if drunkenness is to be stayed in its fearful sweep, carrying death and devastation in its track, these drinking customs must be greatly reformed; and means have accordingly been adopted to enlighten the public mind on the sad mixture of folly and evil which characterizes them. Good work has been done in this direction. Able authors have expounded the case plainly and powerfully; and reference may be specially made to "The Physiology of Temperance and Total Abstinence," by Dr. Carpenter, and "The Pathology of Drunkenness," by Dr. Charles Wilson. Both of these treatises are excellent; telling and trustworthy. But a desire has been expressed for (13) |