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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    CHAPTER VIII. PHYSIOLOGY OF DRUNKENNESS. In administering medicines, the practitioner has a natural desire to learn the means by which they pro- duce their effects upou the body. Thus, he is not contented with knowing that squill acts as a diuretic, and that mercury increases the secretion of the bile. He inquires by what process they do so; and under- stands that the first excites into increased action the secretory arteries of the kidneys, and the last the secretory veins of the liver. In like manner, he does not rest satisfied with the trite knowledge that wines, and spirits, and ales, produce intoxication: he extends his researches beyond this point, and is naturally anxious to ascertain by what peculiar action of the F
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