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.

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    to imitate that effort by art. Indeed thofe gentlemen who have cavilled moft at this pradtice have produced no fad: to controvert it: their diflike to it refts folely on theoretical opinions. To thefe opinions, fortunately, the operations of nature are not obliged to bend: for if we are to fuppofe it dangerous to eva- cuate the loaded ftomach of the inebriate, vomiting, at any time, muft be confidered as an operation not only inexpedient but to a certainty hurtful. The means of exciting vomiting, I have faid above, are fo fimple, that any perfori might accomplifh it, as in the following in- fiance: A gentleman returning home on z dark night flumbled over fomething foft in the flreet, which induced him to examine what it was, when it proved to be a man moft infenfibly drunk. Not wifliing to leave him. to the hazard of being trod upon by a horfe or carriage, he waited for the next paf- fenger, who kindly took him on his back. They carried him to the firfl light which they faw, which proved to be his own houfe, and where his mother was anxioufly waiting his return from a corporation feaft. The man o 2 was