Physiological reflections on the destructive operation of spirituous and fermented liquors on the animal system / [T. Forster].

  • Thomas Ignatius Maria Forster
Date:
1812
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    temporary, and perhaps trivial, state of dis¬ order of the digestive organs is to be in¬ ferred from its being accompanied often with nausea and sickness and a furred tongue, and from its cessation after the ope¬ ration of a cathartic. The immediate effect of wine and spirits is frequently that of pro¬ ducing such stomachic and intestinal irrita¬ tion as appears to be the exciting cause of such headaches. I mention this first, as affording the most familiar and unequivocal example of sympathy. As a more remote, but equally certain and generally acknow¬ ledged consequence of vinous and spiritous stimulation, I may instance irritation and subsequent disorganization of the liver, ac¬ companied by a suspension or depravation of the biliary functions ; a state of disorder particularly interesting, from its well known connexion with an irrational and dejected state of the mind, which has therefore been called hypochondriasis and^ melancholia. The remarkable dependence of sensorial and mental disturbance on a disordered state of the abdominal viscera, appears to have been well known by the earliest writers on medicine, in the infancy of science. It