He told me there was an internal disease of long standing, caused by Leonards' habit of drinking to excess; that the fact of his becoming rapidly worse while in a state of intoxication, settled the question as to whether the last fatal attack was caused by excess of drinking, or the fall."

He told me there was a long-standing disease, caused by Leonards' habit of drinking to excess; that his last fatal attack was caused by drinking, not the fall.'
