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 III. PHENOMENA OF DRUNKENNESS. The consequences of drunkenness are dreadful, but the pleasures of getting drunk are certainly ecstatic. While the illusion lasts, happiness is complete; care and melancholy are thrown to the wind; and Elysium, with all its glories, descends upon the dazzled imagina- tion of the drinker. Some authors have spoken of the pleasure! of being completely drunk: this, however, is not the most ex- quisite period. The time is when a person is neither “ drunken nor sober, but neighbour to both,” as Bishop Andrews says in his “ Ex—ale—tation of Ale.” The moment is when the ethereal emauations begin to float around the brain—when the soul is commencing
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