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

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    (eae) true that other narcotics, particularly opzwm and dang, produce nearly the fame pheeno- - mena, and their habitual ufe almoft the fame difeafes ; yet, for obvions reafons, the chief of which is the common occurrence of drunken- nefs in this country, I am induced to feparate them here, and confider this fubje& by itfelf. Our definition is briefly this: Post VINUM IMMODICE ASSUMPTUM, DELIRIUM ET COMA.—wWhich may be thus tran{lated :—‘‘ Imbecility of intellect, erro- “ neous judgment, violent emotions ; and lofs ** of fenfe and motion after the immoderate “ ufe of vinous liquors.” The Latin word ** Vinum,” has been pre- ferred as being the moft concife, and beft conveying the meaning of vinous fpirit, the produ of fermentation, and on which the inebriating power of all fermented liquors depends; fuch as wine, malt-liquors, cyder, perry, mum, mead, koumifs, &c. all of which by diftillation yield alkohol. The carbonic acid gas, or fixed air, which is evolved in great quantity during the vinous fermentation, that gives a fparkling and pun- gency to certain liquors, {uch as champaigne, bottled
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