Alcoholic Insanity (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Alcoholic InsanityThe following case occurred in my experience. The person was a United States Contractor and at times re ceived large sums of money from the government. He was an occasional inebriate, during the period of his debauches, he was very violent, dangerous to his wife and those about him, making assaults on every one. After the paroxysms of mania passed off, he was repentant, extremely grieved, and did all in his power to amend the evil he had done. After one of his fits of intemperance, in a mood of repentance, he sought to conciliate his wife by the ex penditure of a large sum of money. He rented a villa on the Hudson, furnished it extravagantly, bought horses and carriages, and employed a retinue of servants, and in every way strove to make restitution for his past misdeeds. Some time after this - though not a lengthy period - he received a large sum of money from the government, and again went on one of his debauches, returning home a mad man. He procured an ax his wife ¿ed at his approach and locked herself in a room at the top of the house, the servants escaped to a neighbor's. The maniac had full control of the premises, and proceeded to demolish the furniture. A grand Steinway piano was reduced to splinters, and ruin spread in every direction as his insane fury dictated. Fortunately, he met no one, or homicide would most certainly have been added to his acts of destruc tion. His wife eventually procured a divorce, and he died in an asylum. His son became an inebriate, and coming under my care, i was enabled to obtain the family history.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.