Physiological reflections on the destructive operation of spiritous and fermented liquors on the animal system / by Thomas Forster.

  • Forster, T. (Thomas Ignatius Maria), 1789-1860.
Date:
1812
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Credit: Physiological reflections on the destructive operation of spiritous and fermented liquors on the animal system / by Thomas Forster. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    merely a suppositious assertion; it is a fact impressed on my mind by acurate attention ^ to the history of many diseases. And 1 may add furthermore, that I feel warranted by the opinion of several sagacious physiolo- gists, as well as by the perusal of the history of numerous and dissimilar cases, in con- siderino; such a combination of nervmus and digestive disorders, when once established, as capable of exciting every disease to which there may be a previous tendency in the system*. Spiritous and fermented drinks afford a stimulus which is exhausting to the strength of the constitution, and which must therefore eventually terminate in weakness and inita- tion of the digestive viscera, and an imper- fect performance of their functions. Such a * For information relative to the constitutional origin of local diseases, 1 refer the reader to the First Part of the Surgical Works of Mr. Abernethy. M^ith these works the most eminent of the profession are probably well acquainted. If the publication of this, or any other of my papers, shall in any degree tend to give additional publicity to works of such importance to the improvement of Surgery, I shall consider ni}selt as having contributed towards the general good of man- kind.