Drunkenness / by George R. Wilson.

  • Wilson, George R. (George Robert)
Date:
1897
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Drunkenness / by George R. Wilson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    cated, and with an unprecedented disregard of consequences. The idea is unaccountably sug- gested to their minds, and is followed out without much question, very much in the same way as a man blindly acts on an instinct. Such paroxysmal conduct is apt to be periodic in its recurrence, and demonstrates the relation- ship between such constitutions and those of epilepsy and impulsive insanity. Lastly, there is often observed an unusual order in the development of the symptoms of intoxication. Leaving out of account the minor discrepancies dependent on the personal equation, we have seen that the ordinary de- velopment of intoxication is of a compound order, and includes motor as well as mental symptoms. The normal consequence of con- tinued indulgence in alcoholic stimulants, is that a man should become “ drunk and incap- able,” harmless and helpless. In some men, however, it may be a long time before intoxi- cation goes far enough to make them incapable ; they tend rather to be “ drunk and disorderly,” excited, outrageous, and violent; in other cases intoxication may not, for some time, go deeper than the emotional stage, leaving the drunkard
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