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A careful study of cases of inebriety from any point of exact science will always lead to the same conclusion that inebriety is always a positive physical affection, with a distinct ætiology and symptomatology.
The theory of half vice and half disease, to be remedied by moral means at first, then, when these fail, resort to physical and medical appliances, has no support from scientific study and the natural history of the cases.
When the history of many cases are studied and compared, the evidence is unmistakable that inebriety is a form of insanity, distinct and prominent, requiring special study, and special means and methods of treatment. Also, that, ætiologically, they divide into two groups or classes in which are included all cases.
The first group are those cases in which inebriety is an expression of a neurotic defect of the brain centers, frequently inherited and developed through certain exciting