The Female Inebriate.*

TilE experience that I have to prezent relating to the question of the care and control of the inebriate woman has been arrived at experimentally in everyday life among women suffering from alcoholism. HISTORICAL CONSIDERATIONS.There is a vast change of opinion in recent times with regard to inebriety.Twenty-five years ago I can well recollect that it was looked upon wholly as a moral evil, and the physical side of the question was practically ignored.I think it was in America that the first movement was made towards regarding it in the light of a disease.About tweuty years ago there was a boom in that country in specifics which were advertised to cure the craving for alcohol.When the Keeley cure was first advertised, and Keeley came to England, he endeavoured to persuade us that he had arrived at the solution of this great problem.At that time I went to America, and stayed six months in Chicago, and I did what I could to satisfy myself as to the value of the socalled gold cure.I saw then, and the opinion has only increased with the experience of these latter years, how much the physical