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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    e%- r ta) Lo] eo ae = er a: A ” @ ( 20 ) forgetive, full of nimble, fiery, and delect- able fhapes; which delivered over to the voice (the tongue), which is the birth, be- comes excellent wit. ‘The fecond property of your excellent fherries is, the warm- ing of the blood; which before, cold and fettled, left the liver white and pale; which is the badge of pufillanimity and cowardice: but the fherries warms it, and makes it courfe from the inwards to the parts ex- treme. It illumineth the face ; which, as a beacon, gives warning to all the reft of this little kingdom man, to arm: and then the vital commoners, and inland petty fpirits, mufter me all to their captain the heart; who great, and puffed up with this retinue, doth any deed of courage; and this valour comes of fherries: fo that {kill in the wea- pon is nothing without jack; for that fets ‘ita work; learning a mere hoard of gold kept by a devil, till fack commences it and fets it in act and ufe. Hereof comes it that “ prince Harry 1s valiant ;-for the cold blood “he did naturally inherit of his father, he hath, like lean, flerile, and bare land, ma- nured, hufbanded, and tilled, with excellent 4 ‘© endeavour
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