Total abstinence : a course of addresses / by Benjamin Ward Richardson.
- Richardson, Sir Benjamin Ward, (1828-1897)
- Date:
- 1878
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Total abstinence : a course of addresses / by Benjamin Ward Richardson. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![go slower after its primary effect is over, and therewith generates an impression which is felt through every ‘ nervous fibre of the body. By these two processes it sets up what I may correctly call a ‘ see-saw ’ motion of life:— ‘Now we go up, up, iip, 1 Now we go down, down, down.’ —which becomes a veritable part of existence, and continues when the cause producing it is removed. It is like the motion communicated to the body on board a ship, which is felt long after the unsteady limbs are planted on terra firma. The impression induced by alcohol is implanted on the nervous centres. It is also implanted on the nerves of sense, and in a manner strong and intense on the nerves j of taste. It does not matter that the taste is acquired; it exists, and is too often the most unconquerable of sensations. One drinker acquires the taste for ale, - another for sherry, a third for port, a fourth for claret. Very refined and accomplished drinkers cultivate a second sense, that of smell, and so keenly, as to prefer ] a drink which has a pleasant odour. Again, some ex- * treme drinkers are held by the mere sense of odour . of alcohol until that becomes a dangerous cause of](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22305919_0160.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
