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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    ( ^9 ) and high reliih, by being tao freqiietitly ia^ dul^d. This veiy circumftance at once draws the line between the temperate man and the A. fot. It ought to be remembered, that the fame quantity of wine^ or vinous fpirit, will ^aot always produce the fame effects in the fame perfons ; or in the fame man at all times* This mufi: depend on the habit of intoxicl* tion ; the (lomach being full or empty; the ufual hour of drinking ; a cold or warm country; the temperature of the room; the fummer or* winter feafon ; fading, or after a repaft; and finally, by whatever means the ftate of the body increafes or diminiihes the aftion of fiimuli. This is the fcale of excitability, as explained by Brown in his Ekmetita Medicine^, The moft fotted drunkard knows well that a fmaller quantity of fpirit will do his bufmefs in a morning than after he has dined. Hence a rule i-n temperance never to drink wine on an empty ftomath ; or after very long fafting. A very ftriking faft to this purpofe, is to be found in Captain Bligh's narrative of his pat- ftge to Timor, after the mutiny on board the Bounty,