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Alcohol - Physiological effect

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Ethanol

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Images about Alcohol - Physiological effect

19 images from works
  • A man lying dead on the ground with a broken bottle; a woman sits crying at his side. Lithograph by C. Schacher, c. 1845, after J. Faed.
  • Two young men wake up in bed with headaches on Sunday morning after much drinking the night before. Colour lithograph, 1913.
  • Two young men wake up in bed with headaches on Sunday morning after much drinking the night before. Colour lithograph, 1913.
  • Fifteen vignettes relating to child care, domestic medicine, effects of alcohol and eating. Etching by G. Cruikshank after himself.
  • Men drinking, vomiting and collapsing around a tavern table. Etching by J. Le Poutre, 17th century, after himself.
  • Nineteen scenes depicting popular disillusionment with doctors and medicine. Coloured wood engraving by Henriot, ca. 1900.
  • A man has a joke with his optician. Process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.
  • Fifteen vignettes relating to child care, domestic medicine, effects of alcohol and eating. Etching by G. Cruikshank after himself.
  • Two men in bed with a bottle on Sunday morning, holding their heads. Colour process print, ca. 1908.
  • Two men in bed with a bottle on Sunday morning, holding their heads. Colour process print, ca. 1908.
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Works from the collections

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    On alcohol : a course of six Cantor Lectures delivered before the Society of Arts / by Benjamin W. Richardson.

    Benjamin Ward Richardson | Date: 1875
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    The drunken monkey : why we drink and abuse alcohol / Robert Dudley.

    Robert Dudley | Date: [2014]
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    Men drinking, vomiting and collapsing around a tavern table. Etching by J. Le Poutre, 17th century, after himself.

    Le Poutre, Jean-A., active 1680. | Reference: 26311i
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    A king sits drinking at a table surrounded by revelling courtiers and a man about to vomit. Engraving after J. Jordaens, c. 1640.

    Jacob Jordaens | Date: 1640 | Reference: 26305i
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    The evidence of Sir Wm. Gull, F.R.S., physician to her Majesty.

    Gull, William. | Date: 1878
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Related topics

Alcoholism
Temperance
Ethanol
Alcohol Drinking
Alcoholics
Sick
Vomiting
Alcohol in the body

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