Methomania; a treatise on alcoholic poisoning / With an appendix by Horatio R. Storer.

  • Day, Albert, 1812-1894.
Date:
1867
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Credit: Methomania; a treatise on alcoholic poisoning / With an appendix by Horatio R. Storer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    mental constitution unbalanced in its moral faculties; congenital physical weakness, re- sulting in a morbid tendency to melancholy; a weak individuality ; and a disposition easy, good-natured, and social. The disease is fre- quently induced by misfortune, which darkens and embitters life ; or by contrary successes, which unduly excite the mind. The miserable, the irresolute, the listless, the unoccupied, and those too much burdened with care or labor, are the subjects of it. As the physician is more frequently called to deal with the morbid effects produced by alcoholic poisoning than by any other mode, I shall confine myself to its discussion. The symptoms of alcoholic poisoning in its early stages are, usually, great mental exhila- ration or excitement, with frequent and strong pulse, animated features, increase of appetite and thirst, and of the secretions of skin and kidneys. Under the development of indi- vidual characteristics, also, it may be seen that the sad become sadder; the light-hearted, gay and boisterous ; and the ill-tempered,