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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    that was innately weak in inhibitory qualities, and so unstable that it was soon entirely over- set. 5. States of Mental Disturbance due to Ner- vous Lesions—Epilepsy, Insanity, Head Injuries, Sunstroke, Influenza, etc. The close resemblance between epilepsy and constitutional dipsomania has been referred to. As a rule, epileptics are of a pious turn of mind though impulsive; but they are irrespons- ible beings, with a morbid defect of self-control. The weak - mindedness which they acquire may manifest itself in a habitual excess of alcoholic indulgence, or a bout of paroxysmal drunkenness may be substituted for an epilep- tic attack. As to insanity, we have already devoted sufficient space to its consideration as a factor in drunkenness. Drinking may char- acterise the early stages of nearly all the forms of mental illness. Or, if an acute attack of insanity be recovered from, the resultant weak- mindedness may leave the patient a prey to alcoholic temptation. Sunstroke is rare in this country, but I have known more than one
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