On chronic alcoholic intoxication, or, Alcoholic stimulants in connexion with the nervous system : with a synoptical table of cases / by W. Marcet.

  • Marcet, W. (William), 1828-1900.
Date:
1860
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Credit: On chronic alcoholic intoxication, or, Alcoholic stimulants in connexion with the nervous system : with a synoptical table of cases / by W. Marcet. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    produced. He then reversed the experiment, giving to the first the orange, and to the second the wine, and the result corresponded; the child who had an orange continued well, and the system of the other became straightway disordered, as in the first experiment. A young man betaking himself to the dis- gusting habit of drinking to excess may be considered as very liable to become intoxicated. Should his constitution not be strong and healthy, or should he not be accustomed to active habits, the first occurrence of disease may prove fatal, or, at all events, give him such warning as will effectually prevent his returning to drink. But there are other young drunkards, gifted with strong and healthy constitutions and engaged in occupa- tions requiring great muscular exertion in the open air, who are enabled to rid them- selves rapidly of the alcoholic poison • for instance, men employed as coal porters, hawkers, labourers, will be able to resist for many years the baneful consequences of intemperance; but at forty-one years of age, those who have habitually indulged