Excerpt from Psychiatric Bulletin of the New York State Hospitals, 1916, Vol. 9: Published by the State Hospital Commission, Albany, N. Y.; State Hospital Bulletin Series II Although we unreservedly appreciate the evil for which alcohol is responsible, it does seem as though we had gone too far at times in our etiological reasoning about psychoses when alcohol comes into question. We have undoubtedly been too prone to regard alcohol as the cause behind which or beyond which it was unnecessary to go. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.