An essay, medical, philosophical, and chemical, on drunkenness, and its effects on the human body / [Thomas Trotter].

  • Thomas Trotter
Date:
1804
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    ae hibits fome of the moft curious and intereft-_ ing phenomena that are to be met with in the hiftory of animated nature. The potent ftimulus of vinous fpirit, as if by magical in- fluence, fo difturbs, or operates on the animal funétions, that new affections of mind, latent, or unknown before, are produced; and the drunkard appears to aét the part of a man of deranged intellect, and altogether foreign to the ufual tenor of his fober refletions. But a long train of the moft dangerous dif- eafes are the certain confequence of habitual intoxication: the body and. mind. equally fuffer. Sudden death, apoplexy, palfy, drop- fy, madnefs, and a hideous lift of mental dif- quietudes and nervous failings, prey upon the. fhattered frame of the inebriate, and prove fatal inthe end. Thefe fufficiently point out the fubje& as highly important in a medical view, ‘and worthy of the niceft inveftigation, But as I have not any precurfor in my labours, nor example in the records of phyfic, to direct my fteps, I fhall need the lefs apology for the manner I mean to purfue; and muft claim indulgence where I appear fingular in my method. i Mott
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