The Physiology of Temperance & Total Abstinence: Being an Examination of the Effects of the Excessive, Moderate, and Occasional Use of Alcoholic Liquors on the Healthy Human SystemBohn, 1853 - 184 Seiten |
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Abstinence system action Alco Alcoholic beverages Alcoholic liquors alcoholic poisoning Alcoholic stimulants amount animal apoplexy appetite average beverages blood bodily body brain carbonic acid cause Cholera chronic circulating current circumstances climates coffee cold combustive process condition consequence continued Delirium Delirium Tremens depression digestive apparatus digestive power diminished disease disorders dose drink drunkards drunkenness dysentery effects of Alcoholic endurance especially European excitement exertion experience fact fatigue fatty favour fermented liquors fever frequently habitual excess heat holic increased individuals induced inflammation injurious intoxication kidneys labour less liver Madras Madras Presidency manifest matter mental moderate morbific mortality muscular nervous system number of deaths nutritive ordinary organs oxygen patient peculiar poison Portrait presence of alcohol present produce proportion regard regiment remarkable Secunderabad small quantities spirits STANDARD LIBRARY stomach substance sustained symptoms teetotal teetotalers temperate temperature tendency testimony tion tissues Total Abstinence vigour Vols whilst wine
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Seite 122 - I observed, on a late journey to Constantinople, that the boat-men or rowers of the caiques, who are perhaps the first rowers in the world, drink nothing but water; and they drink that profusely, during the hot months of the summer. The boat-men and water-carriers of Constantinople are decidedly, in my opinion, the finest men in Europe, — as regards their physical development ; and they are all water-drinkers : they may take a little sherbet; but, in other respects, are what we should call in...
Seite 41 - Dr. Howe remarks that the children of drunkards are deficient in bodily and vital energy, and are predisposed by their very organization to have cravings for Alcoholic stimulants. If they pursue the course of their fathers, which they have more temptation to follow, and less power to avoid, than the children of the temperate, they add to their hereditary weakness, and increase the tendency to Idiocy or Insanity in their constitution; and this they leave to their children after them.
Seite 56 - ... patches larger and more numerous — the mucous covering, thicker than common, and the gastric secretions much more vitiated. The gastric fluids extracted this morning were mixed with a large proportion of thick ropy mucus, and considerable muco-purulent matter, slightly tinged with blood, resembling the discharge from the bowels in some cases of chronic dysentery.
Seite 38 - The individual thus afflicted abstains for weeks or months from all stimulants, and frequently loathes them for the same period. But by degrees he becomes uneasy, listless, and depressed, feels incapable of application, and restless, and at last begins to drink till he is intoxicated. He awakes from a restless sleep, seeks again a repetition of the intoxicating dose, and continues the same course for a week or two longer. Then a stage of apathy and depression follows, during which he feels a loathing...
Seite 38 - The periodic or paroxysmal form is much more frequent than the acute. This is often observed in individuals who have suffered from injuries of the head, females during pregnancy, at the catamenial periods, on the approach of the critical period and afterwards, and in men whose brains are overworked.
Seite 56 - Martin complained of no symptoms indicating any general derangement of the system, except an uneasy sensation and a tenderness at the pit of the stomach, and some vertigo, with dimness and yellowness of vision, on stooping down and rising again ; had a thin yellowish-brown coat on his tongue, and his countenance was rather sallow ; pulse uniform and regular, appetite good ; rests quietly, and sleeps as usual...
Seite 173 - B. Carpenter, the most celebrated English physiologist, in his Prize Essay on the use and abuse of Alcoholic Liquors, says: " The regular administration of alcohol, with the professed object of supporting the system under the demand occasioned by the flow of milk, is *a mockery, a delusion, and a snare.
Seite 21 - The selective power of alcohol appears to lead it in the first instance to attack the cerebrum,* the intellectual powers being affected before any disorder of sensation or motion manifests itself; and to this it seems to be limited in what has been here described as the Jirst stage of intoxication.
Seite 34 - It is important to remark, that a slighter form of this disorder, marked by tremors of the hands and feet, deficiency of nervous power, and occasional illusions, will sometimes appear as a consequence of habitual tippling, even without intoxication having been once produced.
Seite 32 - All at once, whilst gazing at a frightful creation of my distempered mind, I seemed struck with sudden blindness. I knew a candle was burning in the room, but I could not see it. All was so pitchy dark. I lost the sense of feeling too, for I endeavored to grasp my arm in one hand, but consciousness was gone.