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

  • Trotter, Thomas, 1760-1832.
Date:
1804
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    ( 208 ) ciple. Here all the means and the pre- cautions ufually taken for the recovery of froft-bitten limbs will be neceflary. The | hands, arms, teet, and legs, may at firft be rubbed with inow, or wafhed with cold water, then wiped dry, and the patient put to bed. The firtt thing to be given by the mouth, may be a little warm milk, and as the heat of the body increafes, fomething more ftimulant may be added. The great object to be at- tended to, is to cherifh the flender remains - _ of life by the gentleft flimuli, for the ftronger would tend to deftroy them. The future ftrength of the body is to be recruited by meafures fuited to the condition of the fyf tem, which need not be detailed here. It might perhaps be confidered by fome as too great a compliment to inftrudt the drun- kard how to correét morning head-ache and fick ftomach. I have quoted before the lines of Horace which apply to this fubject. Something relifhing is ufually ferved up on this occafion, fuch as falted fith, ham, falted, or fmoke-dried meat, &c. Kitchen falt is a very grateful ftimulus to a ftomach weakened by excefs. Dr. Cuilen, in his Ledures P on