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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    ON DRUNKENNESS, M c. INTRODUCTION. ■ Dulce perlculum efi^ 0 Lerujee ? fequ'i Dcum Cingentem'viridi tempora patnphio* XIoR* J\lx\NKiND, ever in purfuit of pleafure, have reludantly admitted into the catalogue of their difeafes, thofe evils which v/ere the immediate offspring of their luxuries. Such a referve is indeed natural to the human mind : for of ail deviations from the paths of duty, there are none that fo forcibly impeach their pretenfions to the charadler of rational beings as the inordinate ufe of fpirituous li- quors. Hence, in the writings of medicine, we find drunkennefs only curforily mentioned among the powers that injure health, while the mode of a£tion is entirely negleded and left unexplained. This is the more to be wondered at, as the ftate of ebriety itfelf ex- B hibits