# The anatomy of drunkenness

Author: Macnish, Robert, 1802-1837

Genre: Category: History - Other

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71060

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+anatomy+of+drunkenness+Macnish&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Drunkenness is not, like some other vices, peculiar to modern times. It is handed down to us from “hoar antiquity;” and, if the records of the antediluvian era were more complete, we should probably find that it was not unknown to the remotest ages of the world. The cases of Noah and Lot, recorded in the sacred writings, are the earliest of which tradition or history has left any record; and both occurred in the infancy of society. Indeed, wherever the grape flourished, inebriation prevailed. The formation of wine from this fruit, was among the earliest discoveries of man, and the bad consequences thence resulting, seem to have been almost coeval with the discovery. Those regions whose un...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XVIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-anatomy-of-drunkenness-71060/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-anatomy-of-drunkenness-71060/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-anatomy-of-drunkenness-71060/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-anatomy-of-drunkenness-71060/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-anatomy-of-drunkenness-71060/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-anatomy-of-drunkenness-71060/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-anatomy-of-drunkenness-71060/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-anatomy-of-drunkenness-71060/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Volume I. contains Memoirs of the Lives of the Worthies. Volume II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-anatomy-of-drunkenness-71060/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-anatomy-of-drunkenness-71060/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-anatomy-of-drunkenness-71060/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-anatomy-of-drunkenness-71060/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-anatomy-of-drunkenness-71060/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-anatomy-of-drunkenness-71060/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-anatomy-of-drunkenness-71060/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-anatomy-of-drunkenness-71060/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-anatomy-of-drunkenness-71060/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-anatomy-of-drunkenness-71060/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-anatomy-of-drunkenness-71060/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-anatomy-of-drunkenness-71060/chapters/1/index.md)