The evidence of Sir Wm. Gull, F.R.S., physician to her Majesty.

  • Gull, William.
Date:
1878
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Credit: The evidence of Sir Wm. Gull, F.R.S., physician to her Majesty. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tissues which have been corrupted by the drinking habits, and until a “rtam amount of self-control is re-established. There are cases are there not, in which self-control is so lost that you would have little hope but from some kind of restraint ? ^ Certainly. There comes a time, not only in drinking, but in all other habitej when habit becomes second nature. That is a large statement but It IS so. ■ Every one knows that the habit of drinking may at last become an overwhelming impulse; and so it is wdth other poisons sav opium, for example. ’ ^ You have read Coleridge’s life, I have no doubt ? Yes. remember the way in which, when he had a keeper to prevent n from getting opium, he used to get the keeper to go and get a bit of information while he filled his bottle ? i' a ou; or ® drunkard, if he has become an habitual than you can trust an opium eater, or than you can “ question upon the small scale first; would you think “ I contract by which a drunkard might say ““ I can see no objection to that. Giving his own consent ? To that I see no objection; that would indeed be a desirable thinp I fir common sense, that if a man is willing to give uif'his j hen you thi^ it woifid be an expedient thing to have such houses ? Ihen comes the question of the houses ; but I .should say with a man’s TOnsent that It woifid be a good thing to confine him if he said “ I should be glad to get rid of this disgusting habit ” ’ Thrt'’Sn^ ^ fiends put him in ? that would be a very much larger question. ^ of'lp'soiS'Ssyl^]'^’'®®**”^^ the subject wIn^recommending the free use of water, I suppose you mean good '^th me on the moors ^ sSnd ex fiLl=s?-SSS'~?=i « my neighbo^ hav^It, 0“^^^ to take it A •• ^®*^<^«es?the ^ •tanie, is it not 7°^^' “ » very composite sub- Yes, it is.