Essay on the use of alcoholic liquors in health and disease / by John Chadwick.

  • Chadwick John.
Date:
1849
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Credit: Essay on the use of alcoholic liquors in health and disease / by John Chadwick. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    CONTENTS. CHAPTEK I. Sudden death from large doses of alcohol.—Mode of action.— Death from concussion or shock.—Experiments on the lower animals by Fontana, by Humboldt, by Brodie, by Percy.— Cases in the human subject 1 5. CHAPTER II. Death from alcohol in the way of coma.—Failure of respiration. —Experiments of Brodie.—Ca^e from Dr. Ogston.— Symptoms and post-mortem appearances of death by asphyxia identical with those from alcohol when it acts as a narcotic.—Redness of inner coat of the stomach, not from inflammation, but from congestion.—Quantity of spirit required to produce death.—Accidental death when intoxicated.—Efforts of nature and of art to present