The physician. I. The cholera / [Anon].
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- 1832
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Credit: The physician. I. The cholera / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![weakened by any habit which has the effect of fiequently exciting- them. In the man who is drunk, pavticuUirly witli wine or spirits, the ac- tion of the heart is much quickened, the pulse beats strongly, and the brain is so acted upon as to cause a false elevation of spirits : he is dis- posed to talk more and louder ; to walk, or dance, or sing more ; and to exert himself in everything-, except what is industrious and use- ful, much more than when he is sober. All this is mere excitement. See the same man the n'3xt morning, and the excitement is gone. The action of his heart and pulse is languid; and his vivacity is all departed. He has no wish to talk, and still less wish to dance or to sing ; and is, in short, as wretched as man can be. In tlie course of the day he recovers a little, and according to his age, constitution, and habits, requires a longer or shorter time for perfect recovery. Any person of common understanding must see that if this is often the case with him, the brain, so often stimulated, the heart, so often hurried and excited, must become disordered. It is from this repetition of excitement that we see in old drunkards the miserable dei)ression of strength going on to palsy, or the violent action of the heart bringing on an apo])lectic Ht by causing a blood-vessel to burst within the brain. And if a man escapes these accidents, and goes on drinking and drinking, his liver becomes hard and diseased, or his stomach becomes in- flamed, or his lungs become affected, or his general strength so lowered that he has no longer the power of resisting any cause of](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21298129_0169.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
