Mendel[162] finds that in Germany coffee inebriety is increasing and supplanting alcohol.
In the remaining cases the inebriety was an expression of nerve exhaustion after various protracted infections.
This condition differs from the condition called inebriety in the fact that it is a periodical expression of degeneracy whose form has been accidently determined, but which would exist even were its form changed.
Nearly all the offspring born after inebriety were prematurely born, defective, epileptic, hysteric, insane, idiots or criminals.
In two other cases nervous exhaustion from typhoid and typhus fever produced the same outcome in inebriety on the part of the father and mother.
By reason of this contact with the effects of inebriety they learned many sad tales of ruined lives, blighted homes and lost souls, through the appetite for strong drink created, or aroused, by alcoholic prescription.
The American Association for the Study of Inebriety appointed a committee several years ago to investigate the various nostrums advertised especially for the benefit of alcohol and opium inebriates.
I have in my mind several cases of inebriety which were traceable to the habit of taking something to relieve pain at these periods.
If a hot punch or a fragrant cocktail were several times every day passed under the nose of a man with a tendency to inebriety it would be beyond the bounds of reason to hope that he should withstand his craving.
The crime and the inebriety are only symptoms of disease and degeneration, "whose footprints can be traced back from stage to stage.
He had drunk a good deal, but any inebrietyfrom which he suffered was due much more to his own vivacity than to alcohol.
He was a man who would have made a success of life a century and a half ago when conversation was a passport to good company and inebriety no bar.
Indeed, a very slight degree of inebriety is dangerous, as it always tends to blunt the perception, and to make a person careless and indifferent.
Furthermore, the accustoming young children to doses of alcohol, or the unborn young to alcohol through the body of a drunken mother, may be strongly contributory toward establishing inebriety in certain cases.
I see the possibility of many serious results in New York's board of inebriety plan.
And it must also be remembered that many of the cases of disease other than inebrietytreated in all public hospitals have histories more or less alcoholic, and that the insane asylums are crowded with those gone mad through drink.
I believe the consequences of even total inebriety from wine, are not as bad as those which follow inebriety from whiskey and rum.
Instead of the settlers being disposed to industry, they still indulged themselves in inebriety and idleness, and robberies now appeared to be committed more frequently than formerly.
Urquhart, an asylum authority, affirms that chronic inebriety "is largely an affair of heredity .
They met a dozen people from College Hill, acquaintances of both men, ladies and gentlemen, who stopped for a moment to make sure that it was a case of inebriety and not of illness, and then passed on in pained surprise.
The reaction from his fit of inebriety had been a severe shock to a system not especially strong, and the disgrace which had fallen on him preyed sharply on his mind.
It was recognised that inebriety made men and women a danger and a nuisance to the family and their neighbours, but no greater a nuisance than the system by which we dealt with them.
For thousands of years society has sought to do away with inebriety by argument, by example, by law; and yet millions and millions have been carried away and countless thousands have become victims of alcohol.
When I first heard of the cure of inebrietythrough scientific means, I felt that the morning star had risen in the east--I felt that at last we were finding solid ground.
Do you consider inebriety a disease, or the result of diseased conditions?
The result of inebriety of parents in inflicting injury upon offspring has not been well understood in the past, but is becoming recognized.
George McMichaels says: "The hereditary nature of the abnormal condition of which inebriety is the outward sign is not understood, even by physicians, as it should be.
That is, the weak and degenerate nerves crave a stimulant, and the weak will yield to the demand, and inebriety result.
Another cause of inebriety in women is found in the patent medicines advertised as a panacea for all pain, which chemical analysis shows to be largely alcoholic.
Idiocy and inebriety are on the increase among civilized peoples.
One phase of the question of hereditary tendencies to inebriety is extremely interesting from a physiological and sociological point of view.
Persons whose parents have been the subject of inebriety lose something of their own will power to keep away from intoxicating drink by the reflection that it is hopeless for them to struggle against an inherited tendency.
The phenomena developed by chronic inebriety are, however, still more important from the point of view of the criminologist than the immediate effects of alcohol on certain constitutions.
The scientific and the non-scientific workers for the suppression and cure of Inebriety had been coming very much together during the last years.
The earnest Christian workers and ardent sociologists were now all coming to realise that Inebriety is a disease and not, specifically, a vice.
The remedy for the disease of Inebriety was at hand.
But Inebriety is an evil the extent of which no one but an expert can possibly measure.
An excellent eugenic motto for a girl, as my friend Canon Horsley pointed out in discussing my paper on this subject read before the Society for the Study of Inebriety in 1909, is "the lips that touch liquor shall never touch mine.
The British Medical Journal has also shown that there is at least one "inebriety cure" in Great Britain which consists of a liquid containing just under 30 per cent.
Nothing can be more hazardous than this practice, justly condemned by Darwin, Trotter, and most physicians, who have had frequent opportunities of witnessing the distressing train of symptoms that inebriety brings on.
The inebriety produced by alcoholic preparations, moreover, is attended with a delirious state, furious and uncontrollable, or followed by congestion and torpor.
Inebriety has sometimes a curious effect upon the memory.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "inebriety" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: drunkenness; fuddle; hangover; high; inebriation
