The House of Commons ha 9at length realized the fact that a man who was addicted to habitual drundeiiness, should be liable to detention in an asylum where he would be dealt with by curative means. Dr Cameron mentioned the case or! a drnnkard whose brain was so saturated with alcohol that after death it lighted with a candle He also referred to a post-mortem examination of one of Barclay & Perkins' draymeu, whose body was fearfully distended with carburretted hydrogen, caused by drink, and on Sir Win. Gull and bis assistants puncturing it in 15 places and applying a light, jets of j flame issued from the corpse until the gas i was burnt out. If the next time a similar post-mot tern takes place a hundred or two of tipplers could be induced to attend, the spectacle would doubtless exercise a wonder- . ful moral influence over tuem.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 26, 30 January 1879, Page 2
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148Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 26, 30 January 1879, Page 2
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