The anatomy of drunkenness / [Robert Macnish].

  • Robert Macnish
Date:
1834
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    CHAPTER V. DRUNKENNESS MODIFIED BY THE INEBRIATING AGENT. + INTOXICATION is not only influenced by tempera- ment, but by the nature of the agent which produces it. Thus, ebriety from ardent spirits differs in some particulars from that brought on by opium or malt liquors, such as porter and ale. I. Modified by Ardent Spirits—Alcohol is the principle of intoxication in all liquors. It is this which gives to wine,* ale, and spirits, their charac- teristic properties. In the natural state, however, yn * Alcohol appears to exist in wines, in a very peculiar state of combination. In the Appendix, I have availed myself of Dr. Paris’s valuable remarks on this subject. ~