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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    mking. Should this not happen, fieep quick- ly feizes the inebriate, and very frequently attended with fterterous breathing. After the fpace of a few hours, or fooner or later, liis fenfes being recovered, but without reccl- leftion of what has paiTed, the drunkard awakes, languid,low^fpirited, and much debi- litated. Here the paroxyfm may be fatd to termi- nate, and more or lefs of febrile afFedion com* ineoees: from whence are produced, fenO- bility to the external air, chills, Ihivering, creeping on the Ikin, weaknefe, inactivity of body and mind, heavinefs and paia of the bead, naufea, thirftg voiBitiog, fmall pulfe, for the mofl part frequent, vvith many other figos of debility. The drunken paroxyfm, as far as can be obferved in thofe who are addifted to the habit, has feme variation from the hiftory now given of the phenomena. The chear- fuinefs of mind, and lively countenance, with all the agreeable and pleafurable feelings, are by no means exhibited in the fame degree. In ihit^ like all human enjoyments, the cx- bilaratinp; rowers tf wine lofe their fine zeft an(i