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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    So curred under the strain of febrile illness or intense excitement. Such a case is unusually interesting, as showing that, in certain subjects, there is a stage reached, which forms an ex- ception to the rule that the system becomes habituated to the use of the stimulant and requires larger and larger doses to produce its physiological effect. Krafft-Ebing lays much stress on this point. This modification of the sensitiveness of the brain to alcohol may persist for an indefinite period after the tippling habits have been relinquished. Such permanent impairments are especially liable to follow youthful excess. This was exemplified in a case that came under my notice in the country. The patient was a man who had indulged in alcohol to a ereat extent in his youth. By some means or other he gave up the habit, and after that lived a long and useful life. When I knew him he was an elderly man— I should say about sixty —with a venerable appearance, and a character that won him great respect. He was a fairly successful and upright tradesman in the village in which he lived, and had not tasted alcohol for,
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