| Description Of Item | Contains 'Feelings of Pleasure and pleasurable activity - Hedonic Orexiae'; and 'Oinomania - Dipsomania - Methyomania - Methystic orexia' with pasted cuttings on absinthe, c1862-1871. Also includes case notes on alcoholism followed by insanity and masturbation, 1864; letter from Joseph Taylor Goodsir, Edinburgh on his snuff-taking, 1871; report by the Committee of Management to the Directors of the House of Refuge for the Destitute, Edinburgh for the accommodation and treatment of intemperate females, 1864; 'On the physiological effects of tobacco' by Dr Richardson, 1864; 'Tobacco Smoke' by Drs Vohl and Eulenberg, 1871; 'Mrs Gordon's memoir of Christopher North' section on Thomas de Quincey; and small cuttings on cure for drunkenness, statistics of intemperance, convictions for drunkenness, pauper lunacy and the beer trade, betel-nut chewing, the abuse of tea and tobacco, 1864-1873. |