Temperance prize essays / By Drs. Mussey and Lindsly.

Date:
1835
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Credit: Temperance prize essays / By Drs. Mussey and Lindsly. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    “¥ : z F 1 sions are easily unfolded, as pity, hatred, gener- osity, revenge, while the reasoning powers and the moral sense are weakened and perverted, and The passions the degradation of these noblest at- Cha tributes of human nature is manifest- ed by indecent, profane, idiotic, or pugnacious Under the still deeper and more protracted i in- Effects of fluence of this poison, the functionsof large doses. the senses and the operations of the mind are slower and less coherent; the voluntary muscles at the same time indicating their en- mouth, the driveling lip, and the hanging head ; and the exhausted brain and nerves at length leave the whole system to sink into a state of un- consciousness or profound insensibility, which sometimes terminates in death. The free and habitual use of ardent. spirit, is ae followed by habitual languor in the ee and in fact of every organ of the body. the exquisite delineations of benevolence, of deli- cacy, and of high moral and religious feeling, are effaced from the countenance, as their prototypes are from the mind, and stupidity and selfishness occupy their places. Even strong passion is but faintly portrayed by the half palsied muscles of the face, and sluggishness dwells in that mind which was once impelled by a spirit of activity and en- terprize. The powers of digestion, and nutrition having been effectually invaded, the stomach ad- mits less food than before, and the whole svstem