An essay, medical, philosophical, and chemical, on drunkenness, and its effects on the human body / by Thomas Trotter, M.D.

  • Trotter, Thomas, 1760-1832.
Date:
1804
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Credit: An essay, medical, philosophical, and chemical, on drunkenness, and its effects on the human body / by Thomas Trotter, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    be afilifed, his kindnefs is not WOfth ybuf thanks. When you hear a drunken man boafting of his generofity to his friends ; beware, hoW you receive a favour from that man. When you hear a drunken man telling fa- mily fecrets, whether of his own, or thofe of other people; put that man down for a fool; and take care what you fay in his prefence. When you hear a drunken man boafting of his favours from the/2\>;; be allured, that man has no honour* When you hear a drunken man bragging of his courage; mark that man a coward. When you hear a drunken man vaunting of his riches; be afTured, he cannot be ellimable for his virtues. , When you hear a drunken man pitying misfortunes which he did not relieve when fober; it is the ftrongeft proof that he pof- felTes no goodnefs of heart. Receive no donations from a drunken man j left he fhould afk them again, when foben . Avoid the company of a drunkard j for if he infults you^ and you fhould infift on fatif-