The anatomy of drunkenness / By Robert Macnish.

  • Robert Macnish
Date:
1832
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Credit: The anatomy of drunkenness / By Robert Macnish. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    this period, the pulse was much augmented both in force and frequency; slight convulsive twitches of the muscles of the arms were also induced; no painful sensation, nausea, or languor, however, either preceded, accompanied, or followed this state, nor did a minute elapse before the brain rallied, and resumed its wonted faculties, when a sense of glowing warmth extending over the system, was speedily succeeded by a re-in- statement of the equilibrium of health. “ The more permanent effects were (as in the first experiment) an invigorated feel of vital power, improved spirits, transient irritations in different parts, but not so characteristically rheumatic as in the former instance. “ Among the circumstances most worthy of regard in considering the properties and administration of this powerful aerial agent, may be ranked, the fact of its being, contrary to the prevailing opinion, both highly respirable, and salutary; that it impresses the brain and system at large with a more or less strong and durable degree of pleasurable sensation; that, unlike the effect of other violently exciting agents, no sensible exhaus- tion or diminution of vital power accrues from the exertions of its stimulant property; that its most ex- cessive operation even, is neither permanently nor transiently debilitating; and finally, that it fairly pro-
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