Society for Promoting Legislation
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Excerpt from Society for Promoting Legislation: For the Control and Cure of Habitual Drunkards The question is of great importance; a law, indeed, to this effect would be not only an act of mercy to the drunkard himself, but in its operation it might be productive of a salutary influence in restraining the prevalence of intemperance." Twenty thousand copies of this essay were circulated in America, and doubtless led to legislative effort in that country. This question had a special prominence in the evidence given in 1855 before the Scottish Lunacy Commissioners, and in the Report of these Commissioners in 1857. In January, 1858, Dr. Alexander Peddie contributed a paper, on "The Necessity of Legislation for the Control and Treatment of Insane Drinkers," to the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Edinburgh. In March of the same year Sir Robert Christison aelivered a lecture, at a conversazione of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, on "The Medico-Legal Relations of the Habits of Intemperance." Dr. Peddie also read a paper, in September, 1860, before the Social Science Association meeting in Glasgow, on "Dipsomania, a Proper Subject for Legal Provision," which caused considerable discussion at the meeting, and in the papers and journals of the day. Dr. Peddie also got up a meeting of the medical profession in Scotland, in June, 1861, "for considering the proposed amendments of the Lunacy Act," but mainly for the purpose of bringing the inebriate question to the front, as shown by the report of the meeting, and a resolution proposed by Dr. Peddie, and seconded by Dr. W. T. Gardiner, and agreed to unanimously, part of which ran as fellows :- "That many cases of excessive intemperance depend on disease, and constitute a form of insanity. That such cases cannot be treated without confinement, more or less strict. That in the present condition of the law such treatment is frequently unattainable." The newspapers of the day kept up a controversy on this subject. About this time it took a practical shape in America; and in Australia it was pushed forward by Dr. C. McCarthy, of Northcote, Melbourne, and in both countries legislative enactments were established. In 1868 Dr. Peddie wrote an article on " Dipsomania," in "Chambers´ Encyclopedia." Thus Dr. Grindrod and Dr. Peddie have been the pioneers of the movement in this country. 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.
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