Stimulants and Narcotics 1871 by George Miller Beard ~Drugs Effects & Social Evils per Race, Class, Religion etc~ Prevention of social ills

Title: Stimulants and Narcotics: Medically, Philosophically, and Morally Considered.

Author: George M. [Miller] Beard, M.D.

Description: Third edition (1871). Original brown cloth decoratively stamped in black and gilt on the front cover. Worn at spine ends; tips of board corners exposed. Medical library bookplate on front pastedown. Library markings on title page and rubber stamp in the bottom margin of one other page, else clean. pp. xiv, 155, plus [1] ads. 7.25 x 4.75 inches.

The fourth volume in Putnam's Handy Book Series.

Dr. George Miller Beard's book gives a systematic description and history of the principle stimulants and narcotics, with fascinating discussions of their good and evil effects, as considered by race, climate, age, religion, sex, individual temperament, habit, the state of health, and the progress of civilization, and to indicate the methods by which their associated evils may be successfully opposed (legislation, asylums, compulsory education, reducing the Navy's grog rations, etc.).

George Miller Beard (1839-1883) was an American neurologist with abiding interests in electrotherapy, hypnotism, functional nervous diseases, and longevity. He graduated from Yale in 1862 and received his medical degree from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York in 1866. As a mental expert, he participated in several famous trials including that of President Garfield assassin. He also played a role in the origination of the National Association for the Protection of the Insane and of the American Neurological Society.

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good+
Jacket Condition: None

Publisher: G. P. Putnam & Sons
Place: New York
Year: 1871

Keywords: drugs, 19th century, nineteenth century, Putnam's Handy Book Series,