APPLETON'S JOURNAL

....A committee, appointed by the British Parliament to inquire into the subject of drunkenness, reports that there is a difference between the paroxysm of intoxication and insanity proper, so distinct as to forbid the plea, in bar of punishment, that an offence was committed while drunk. For this reason, it is argued that, when acts of violence or other offenses are superadded to drunkenness, the regular penalty should be enforced.... Recent investigations have proved that coffee is a powerful disinfectant, not only rendering animal and vegetable effluvia harmless, but actually destroying them.... The Legislature of Kentucky has recently passed a bill that, on the affidavit of two respectable citizens, any person who, through excessive use of opium, arsenic, hashish, or any drug, has become incompetent to manage himself or his estate, may be confined in any asylum, and placed under guardianship, as in the case of habitual drunkards or lunatics....

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