Physiological reflections on the destructive operation of spiritous and fermented liquors on the animal system / by Thomas Forster.

  • Forster, T. (Thomas Ignatius Maria), 1789-1860.
Date:
1812
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Credit: Physiological reflections on the destructive operation of spiritous and fermented liquors on the animal system / by Thomas Forster. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    tina, and other dissimilar complaiiils. Doc- tor James Curry seems to consider that this gentleman is unaware of the true principle upon which his success so much depended The developement of Doc- tor CuiTy’s opinions, whenever his ex- pected work shall be given to the public, will have a tendency to show how much a disordered state of the digestive organs in general, and consequently of the whole sys- tem, depend on disorder of that particular viscus, the morbid structure of which seems so remarkably calculated to exhibit the evil effects of spiritous and fermented potations. As a proof of the rapid power of spirits to occasion a disorder of the viscera, wdiich may soon terminate in death, I may ad- vert to a case mentioned by Doctor Cheyne in his book on Apoplexy and Le- thargy, in which a child appears to have been destroyed by an occasional draught of whiskey, a beverage to which it had not been accustomed. On dissection, the liver was found of a bright vermilion colour. On children, and those who have not been used * Examination of Prejudices against Mercury, &c. ^d Edit. p. 12.
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