An excerpt from the Preface. In July, 1887, Clark Bell, Esq., contributed a paper to the International and Colonial Congress of Inebriety at London entitled, "the Relation of Intemperance to Insanity," which was read before the Medico-Legal Society, in September, 1887, and the November and December Meetings of the Society in 1887 were devoted to original papers on this subject by distinguished members, the discussion of which, are made the basis of the present volume. It was decided to select from among these various articles, thus contributed, enough to make a volume of at least 200 pages, so that Students of the Science might have in hand, the more important of these papers by members of the Medico-Legal Society, from widely different fields of thought, who had given this important subject attention. The compilation of the greater part of these works with a reference to those unpublished, has devolved upon the writer as Chairman of the Committee of Publication, aided by the generosity of a few friends, who have contributed the necessary time to publish this volume, without expense to the Medico-Legal Society, of New York, as a testimonial and memento of its labors in a cause now exciting the popular mind. -Clark Bell. New York, October, 1888. Note.-Dr. T. D. Crothers read a paper entitled "Should Inebriates be Punished by Death for Crime?" before the Medico-Legal Society, September Session of 1888, too late for insertion here.